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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.”
Hisashi Sagawa, Hiroshi Kawamura, Yoshiaki Ikejima, Naoki Imaizumi, Rokuro Oyamada, Kuniaki Miura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 732-735
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30491
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A breeder blanket, whose purposes are to breed tritium and to produce thermal energy, is indispensable for a fusion reactor. In addition to demonstrating the physics of burning D-T plasmas, an experimental reactor such as the ITER will also conduct a verification test of a blanket design. An in-pile functional test has been considered to obtain above engineering data since 1992 in the JMTR project. The sweep gas system which is a system to measure and recover the tritium released from a blanket mock-up has been designed. From the results of the design, the sweep gas system will be sufficient for the in-pile functional test in the JMTR.