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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.”
B. J. Merrill, S. C. Jardin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1278-1283
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29517
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The release of cooling water from the divertor, first wall, or blanket cooling system into the vacuum chamber during plasma operation is a coolant ingress accident. Once inside the chamber, this coolant will enter the plasma, causing a density limit disruption. We have analyzed this accident for ITER with the DSTAR code. Two neutral transport treatments were used in studying this accident: a 1 1/2D diffusion approximation, and a 2D fluids solution; both gave comparable results. Our findings are that this event could increase the rate of plasma current decay during a disruption by two to three times that being proposed as an ITER reactor design guideline.