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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.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2089-2094
Monitoring and Measurement | Proceedings of the Second National Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Dayton, Ohio, April 30 to May 2, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24592
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A Tritium Extraction Plant (TEP) is under construction at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (CRNL) for the extraction of tritium from the heavy water moderator and coolant of research and power reactors owned by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Since the process equipment will contain a large inventory of tritium (∼20 g), plant operating personnel must be continually aware of process stream activity levels for economic reasons and promptly alerted in the event of leakage for personnel health protection purposes and inventory loss minimization. Consequently, the TEP is equipped with a number of tritium monitors for the continuous measurement of tritium contained in the process equipment, the building air and the plant exhaust stacks. This paper outlines the approach taken to provide tritium monitoring at the TEP for health protection, environmental and process requirements and describes the general features of specific monitors in each classification.