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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.”
Liu Cheng-An, Wang Tian-Long, Lu Xun
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 876-881
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29455
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With the Tokamak driver parameters that could be chieved round about 2000 in the world, neutronics studies and analyses have been performed to the blanket configurtion and materials and self-shielding effect of group cross section for the commercial Tokamak fusion-fission hybrid reactor. The main concern of the study has been the assessment of the global tritium breeding ratio, the global Pu239 breeding ratio and determinmatton of the total power production. The results show that it's possible to produce 4 tons of Pu239 per year and net electric output of one GWe, that the self-shielding effect is not important for the fast fission blanket.