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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.”
G. F. Chapline, L. F. Nakae, N. Snyderman, J. M. Verbeke, R. Wurz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | January 2012 | Pages 150-154
Fission | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13412
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Over the past few years a number of experiments have been carried out at LLNL with a scintillator array that has the ability to count individual MeV neutrons and -rays with nanosecond timing. It has been demonstrated that this array can be used to measure the statistical properties of the neutrons emitted in single fission chains. The multiple time scales over which these fission neutrons are correlated allow one to deduce quite a lot regarding the nature of the fissile assembly. In this paper we will describe how neutron correlations measured with a liquid scintillator array can be used to assay the amounts of fissile elements in reprocessed and spent nuclear fuels.