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“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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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 2152-2158
Blanket Shield and Neutronic | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30039
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This paper presents the recent development studies on the adaptation of the European Ceramic BIT Blanket to updated DEMO specifications. The adaptation work is in progress, since 1990, when a detailed comparison between two existing designs lead to the selection of an unique concept. The main new developments concern the separation in two parts of the inboard blanket segments at the level of the lower divertor, the consequent improvement of the blanket coverage, the simplification of maintenance operations, and finally the increased compactness of the blanket because of the inclusion of the shielding into the breeder assembly.