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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.”
P. A. Finn, J. N. Brooks, D. A. Ehst, Y. Gohar, R. F. Mattas, C. C. Baker
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 902-907
Innovative Concepts for Power Conversion | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24851
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The benefits and limitations arising from the use of polarized deuterium-tritium fuels were assessed for commercial tokamak fusion reactors. The difference in capital costs for a reactor with and without polarized fueling was quantified for two reactors, one with a beta of 0.067 and a major radius of 7 m and the second with a beta of 0.25 and a major radius of 5.25 m. The change in reactor performance was also quantified. The conclusion was that the sum of all benefits associated with the use of polarized fuels does not result in a significant improvement in the tokamak reactor economics.