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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.”
A. Yu. Chirkov, S. V. Ryzhkov, P. A. Bagryansky, A. V. Anikeev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 39-42
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11570
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A numerical model of ion kinetics is considered for the axially symmetrical magnetic trap. The trap contains warm Maxwellian plasma and strongly non-Maxwellian high-energy (fast) ions. The steady-state fast ion population is supported by the ionization of high-energy neutral atoms injected into the plasma. The physical model is based on the kinetic equation with the two-dimensional Fokker–Planck collision operator in the velocity phase space. Regimes of plasma exhaust through the mirrors are considered taking into account the possibility of electrostatic barrier formation. Parameters of power balance are discussed for the system under consideration.