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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.”
Don O. Coffin, Steven P. Cole, Richard C. Wilhelm
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 972-976
Containment, Control, and Maintenance of Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25263
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A commercial peizoelectric valve has been modified to enhance its tritium compatibility, enabling it to provide about 125 tritium gas injections planned for Princeton's Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). The valve was modified at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LAND, exposed to progressively higher concentrations to tritium gas, and repeatedly tested for performance with tritium. The modified valve meets the basic TFTR flow requirements (50 torr L/s), and it survived 3400 torr hr exposure to tritium with neither decrease in performance nor significant leakage across the closed valve. A totally tritium-compatible piezo valve, containing no organic materials, is also proposed and described.This work is supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy.