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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.”
Y. Nakashima et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 100-105
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16881
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In the new research plan of Plasma Research Center of the University of Tsukuba, a high heat-flux divertor simulator (E-Divertor) was proposed by using an end-mirror exit of a large tandem mirror GAMMA 10/PDX device. Experiments for characterization of end-loss plasma flux have been extensively performed at the end-mirror region of GAMMA 10/PDX and detailed behavior of end-loss particles has been investigated. In standard hot-ion mode plasmas (ne0 ~ 21018 m-3, Ti0 ~ 5 keV), the energy analysis of ion flux was performed by using end-loss ion energy analyzer (ELIEA). It was found that the high ion temperature (100 - 400 eV) is generated and has a liner relationship between diamagnetism in the central-cell. The ion temperature determined from the probe and calorimetric measurements gives a good agreement with the ELIEA measurement. Additional ICRF heating in the anchor-cell showed a significant increase of particle flux, which indicated an effectiveness of additional plasma heating in adjacent cells. Superimposing the ECH pulse of 380 kW, 5 ms induces a remarkable enhancement of heat flux and a peak value in the net heat-flux density more than 10 MW/m2 was attained during the ECH injection, which comes up to the heat-load level of the divertor plate of ITER. Recently a large-scale divertor simulation experimental module (D-module) was installed in the west end-cell and the first plasma irradiation experiments onto a new tungsten V-shaped target were successfully performed. A number of interesting results such as neutral compression, enhancement of recycling and impurity radiation during noble gas injection, have been observed.