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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.”
Irina V. Aleksandrova, Alezandr A. Belolipetskiy, Vjacheslav I. Golov, Vladimir I. Chtcherbakov, Elena V. Makeyeva, Elena R. Koresheva, Igor E. Osipov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 38 | Number 2 | September 2000 | Pages 190-205
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A142
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A precise and accurate knowledge of the characteristics of three-dimensional micro-objects such as inertial confinement fusion (ICF) targets and laser-produced plasmas is required to analyze the results of laser fusion experiments. Significant advances have been made in the development of tomographic information-processing methods for application to ICF target characterization. Topics discussed include (a) new high-resolution algorithm obtained by symmetrizing a basic filtered backprojection algorithm, (b) algorithms for threshold target characterization, (c) new approach to micro-object scanning based on quasi-uniform geometry, (d) ICF target preparation for tomographic characterization.