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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.”
Emilio Franconi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 414-419
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23215
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Transmission of microwave radiation at the lower hybrid frequency may induce multipactor breakdown in the coupling structure of a tokamak machine. To increase the R.F. power throughput to a plasma, secondary electron emission on the waveguide walls and subsequent electron multiplication which cause multipactor breakdown effect must be reduced. In this work measurements of secondary electron yields δ of two kinds of coatings (graphite, TiC) on S.S. were performed as a function of primary beam energies (100 eV; 1.1 keV). Also uncoated stainless steel was measured. Results show δ to have a typical energy dependence, with a peak occuring at 200 to 300 eV for normal electron beam incidence. The graphite and TiC coatings after surface treatment give δmax < 1, which allows to reduce multipacting in waveguide.