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SMR service center targeted for Ontario
GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy has announced plans to invest as much as $50 million to establish a Canadian BWRX-300 Engineering and Service Center near Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington New Nuclear Project site. The Ontario government had previously approved the construction of the first of four BWRX-300 small modular reactors at the site. The center will provide engineering and technical services for the long-term operation and maintenance of the future fleet of SMRs in Ontario. It will also serve as a hub for innovation and training, knowledge sharing, supply chain engagement, and workforce development.
Tai T. Pham, Mohamed S. El-Genk
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | January 2012 | Pages 343-348
Modeling and Simulations | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13443
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This paper investigates the interaction of energetic solar protons measured by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), with the aluminum shielding structure of different thicknesses and calculates the dose distribution inside an tissue equivalent phantom inside the aluminum structure. In addition to the incident energetic protons, the major contributors to the total dose inside the phantom are the secondary protons and neutrons generated by spallation reactions in the aluminum structure and the phantom. Three modes of incidence of source protons are considered: center seeking, planar, and isotropic. The center seeking mode is the most conservative, resulting in the highest dose values and distribution inside the phantom, compared to those at the phantom's outer surface. Both the planar and isotropic modes result in much lower dose values that are more evenly distributed throughout the phantom.