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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 36-38
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11569
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The achievement of 60% beta and near classical confinement in the Russian Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT) provides a basis for extrapolating to a 2 MW neutron source with 2 MW m-2 of 14 MeV neutron flux over an area of ~1 m2. Such a source is needed for fusion materials development and qualification. We consider two axisymmetric configurations: a single mirror cell Deuterium-Tritium Dynamic-Trap Neutron Source (DTNS) and a Tandem-mirror Neutron Source (TNS). Compared to earlier US neutron source concepts, neither configuration utilizes complex minimum-B magnets or thermal barriers. In this paper we describe extrapolations from GDT with the same physical size, and the same dimensionless plasma parameters, but with higher magnetic field as well as higher neutral beam energy and power.
