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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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Neutronic | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29633
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Radiation measurements were made during recent high power, high neutron yield experiments, and used to calibrate the neutronics simulation of the radiation shielding system. The results indicate that the present radiation shielding is more effective than predicted by the initial design estimates. This is attributed to the effects of changes in the experimental configuration since the initial design and to the design margin included to accommodate initial uncertainties in material properties and distributions. With the present radiation shielding, the production of 5 × 1020 D-T neutrons/yr will result in a total annual dose equivalent at the PPPL property line of less than the 10 mrem/yr design objective.