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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.”
Stephan Letts, Evelyn Fearon, Steven Buckley, Charlotte King, Robert Cook
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 4 | May 2006 | Pages 764-767
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1198
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Precision single bumps were deposited on the surface of ICF capsules to simulate the hydrodynamic instability caused by a fill tube. The bump is fabricated by placing an aperture mask on the capsule and coating plasma polymer through the aperture. The apparatus and procedures used to align and hold the shell for coating are described. Bumps were made having a width of about 50 m and from 1 to 10 m in height. The bumps were characterized using interference microscopy and AFM.