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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.”
R.D. Watson, F.M. Hosking, M.F. Smith, C.D. Croessmann
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1794-1798
Impurity Control and Plasma-Facing Component | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29603
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The monoblock geometry is proposed for the ITER Physics Phase divertor for brazing of carbon armor tiles to copper or molybdenum cooling tubes. Elastic/plastic finite element analyses predicted high residual stresses except with OFHC copper. Samples of pyrolytic graphite tiles brazed to OFHC copper, Glidcop™ Al-15 copper alloy, and molybdenum tubing show cracking in all of the samples, except with the OFHC copper. A 3-tile divertor target consisting of 12 mm thick pyrolytic graphite brazed with a copper-silver alloy to a 12 mm diameter OFHC copper tubing was tested at 15 MW/m2 with a rastered 30 keV electron beam for 1000 thermal cycles. A gradual rise in surface temperature from 1000 C to 1200 C over the 1000 cycles was observed, along with hot stripes (1500 C) at the tile edges. However, no delamination cracks could be detected.