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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.”
Dilip K. Bhadra, Cheng Chu, Unto A. Peuron
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 3 | May 1983 | Pages 329-334
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20858
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We have studied the feasibility of an efficient current-drive scheme using radio-frequency (rf) waves on the alpha particles produced in a reactor tokamak. Traveling fast waves, generated as waveguide modes in the plasma, are found to be particularly suitable for implementing such a scheme. The scheme involves using rf power to prohibit the alpha particles from slowing down isotropically and in pushing the alpha particles in a preferential direction and thus form an alpha-particle beam, which, through interaction with electrons, sustains a current. Numerical estimates for the current-drive efficiency were obtained using plasma parameters characteristic of the Argonne National Laboratory design of a reactor tokamak.