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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 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 503-514
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29391
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An extended theory is presented for the calculation of neutral-beam-driven currents in tokamaks, including for the first time the effects of radial transfer of toroidal momentum, background ion rotation, and fast beam ion pressure gradients. The new theory contains the beam current, electron return current with trapping effects, and the bootstrap current contributions of previous theories, but it is extended to be consistent with particle and momentum balance and ambipolarity in a rotating plasma with the radial transfer of toroidal momentum and a significant fast beam ion population. These new effects can produce order unity changes in the beam-driven and bootstrap currents in a Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) model problem.