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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-A29636
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A precise calculational analysis of the INEL manganese bath experiment to measure beryllium neutron multiplication has been performed. The goal throughout the analysis was the minimization of all sources of error due to the calculational model and method. An extremely detailed three-dimensional Monte Carlo geometry model was developed for use with the code MCNP. Calculations were performed for a bare-source and four beryllium sample configurations for both DT and 252Cf neutron sources. The primary objective of the analysis was the calculation of various neutron-economy parameters applied as experimental corrections, either directly or as verification of measured values. The most significant of these were the tank leakage, duct streaming, structural absorption, fractional bath capture in manganese, high-energy parasitic bath absorption, neutron multiplication in other materials, and indirect absorption and multiplication in beryllium.