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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 2149-2152
Blanket and Process Engineering | 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-A24601
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Lithium oxide is a potential solid-state blanket material for fusion applications. Equilibrium water vapour pressure in the system Li2O-H2O including dehydration LiOH H2O and dissociation LiOH were studied in a temperature range 70–160 and 270–440°C respectively. The kinetics of LiOH dissociation was studied in a range 390–450°C by Mak Ben quartz spring balance and in a range 450–600°C by volumetric method collecting hydrogen after chemical decomposition of water on hot metal. Kinetics of tritium oxide release from neutron irradiated lithium oxide with initial concentration 1,11 109 and 3,33 109 Bq/g was studied in vacuum 1,333 Pa in the range 280–450°C. The initial and final stages of the process are characterized by activation energies of 83,5 and 54,4 kJ/mol, respectively. Taking into account the formation of OT groups into inorganic compound under irradiation a mechanism of water and tritium oxide formation and recovery from solid phase is a chemical recombination reaction (polycondensation) which brings to the formation of H2O or HTO and inorganic polymer (sintering).