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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.”
E. D. Gospodchikov, S. V. Golubev, O. B. Smolyakova, E. V. Suvorov, A. V. Vodopyanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 223-225
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11616
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New approach to realizing high plasma parameters in electron cyclotron resonance discharge supported by microwave radiation in axisymmetric magnetic trap has been proposed. This approach is based on using the inverted radial distribution of plasma density (with minimum at the trap axis). Such plasma density distributions allow efficient cyclotron heating and sustaining the steady-state discharge with high plasma density including densities above the critical value (corresponding to the density for which plasma frequency equals to the frequency of heating radiation). Simulations of power deposition for EC heating of plasma with overcritical density in axisymmetric mirror magnetic trap are presented, in which the effect of increasing the heating efficiency for inverted radial plasma density profiles has been demonstrated.