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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 1701-1706
Material and Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29587
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Ceramic/ceramic composites, in particular, SiC/SiC composites, offer two major advantages over conventional structural metals for fusion applications; i.e., low activation under neutron irradiation and high temperature mechanical properties. These composites face several challenging issues which include: fabrication scale up, joining methods, and chemical compatibility. Inherent porosity, together with microcracking that occurs during stressing beyond the yield strength may negate the consideration of these composites for hermetic boundaries unless combined with other materials. Irradiation stability is an issue until better data can be obtained. Hence, the feasibility of using these composites in a fusion structure remains to be established.