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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.”
E. M. Fearon, R. T. Tsugawa, P. C. Souers, J. D. Polla, J. L. Hunta
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2239-2244
Research and Development | 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-A24615
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An ultraviolet absorption feature has been seen in solid deuterium-tritium and hydrogen-tritium at a sensor temperature of 5 K. The peak occurs at 3.6 eV and is about 1.5 eV wide. It disappears when the temperature is raised to about 10 K but reappears upon cooling and is, therefore, radiation induced. At 5 K, the absorption line forms on a time scale of minutes and appears to represent part-per-million levels of electron-mass defects. The suggested model is that of a trapped electron, where the absorption line is the ground state-to-the-conduction band transition. A marked isotope effect is seen between D-T and H-T.