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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 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 656-663
Inertial Confinement Fusion Driver Technology | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24817
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The Sandia National Laboratories Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator PBFA II is expected to produce significant bremsstrahlung on every shot during 30 MV operation. Shielding specific electronic components from the intense bremsstrahlung environment is an important consideration. We describe new 3-D Monte Carlo electron-photon transport simulations of the PBFA-II facility that include a more efficient version of the next-event-estimator calculation and final design information for accelerator components within the vacuum chamber. The improved bremsstrahlung shielding analysis is compared with pin diode and thermoluminescent dosimetry measurements obtained during the first four months of accelerator testing.