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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.”
M. E. Sawan, L. A. El-Guebaly
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 2069-2074
Blanket Shield and Neutronic | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30026
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An efficient organic cooled low activation ferritic steel first wall and shield has been designed for the D-3He power reactor ARIES-III. The inboard shield is 65 cm thick and provides adequate magnet protection. The steel structure has a peak end-of-life damage of only 63 dpa and is expected to last for the whole reactor life. The total absorbed dose rate in the organic coolant is 1026 eV/s resulting in a radiolytic decomposition rate of 171 kg/hr. Tritium production leads to a release rate of 33.5 Ci/d and an acceptable off-site effluent dose < 1.3 mrem/yr.