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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.”
H. Noguchi, Clay E. Easterly, M. R. Bennett
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 2 | September 1989 | Pages 137-142
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29142
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The conversion reaction of tritium gas (T2) to tritiated water was studied experimentally at initial tritium concentrations between 9.6 × 10−3 and 48 GBq · m−3 (2.6 × 10−4 and 1.3 Ci · m−3) in air. Effects of water vapor and catalysts on the conversion reaction were also examined. Stainless steel, copper, paint, and platinum black were used as potential catalytic surfaces. First-order rate constants for the reaction in air are found to be independent of initial tritium concentration, and there is no effect from water vapor on the reaction. The conversion is insensitive to the presence or absence of stainless steel and copper. Paint sorbs T2 and HTO, but the latter is desorbed from the paint by heating. Platinum black produces the expected increase in the rate of reaction.