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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.”
T.L. Grimm, K.E. Kreischer, W.C. Guss, R.J. Temkin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1648-1653
Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29957
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A 200–300 GHz high power pulsed gyrotron oscillator has recently been operated in a 14 T Bitter magnet. The design of this pulsed gyrotron is based on continuous wave (CW) constraints. A single cylindrical waveguide cavity with linear tapers on each end was tested using two magnetron injection guns (MIG). The first produces a large electron beam which excites whispering gallery modes and the second produces a smaller beam that will couple to volume modes. The highest output power of 970 kW was generated at 229 GHz in the TE34,6 using the large MIG with a 59 A, 92 kV electron beam. This corresponds to an efficiency of 18% which was the highest produced in this mode. Similar efficiencies were obtained at 202 and 213 GHz using the same MIG and at 290 GHz using both the large and small MIG. The experimental power and efficiency is about a factor of two below the single mode theoretical predictions, even at low current. A detailed parameterization of the TE34,6 mode's operating range, measurements of the beam's velocity ratio (α), and comparison to previous high frequency work at MIT imply that mode competition is one important cause of the low experimental power and efficiency.