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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 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1200-1204
Tritium Properties and Interaction with Material | 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-A30572
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Simultaneous effects of radiation induced defects and gas atoms of various types in the near surface layers of the first wall material of a fusion reactor produced rather intricate pictures of their interaction and diffusion. This work describes our attempt, by using computer simulation methods, to look into He and H interaction reactions with radiation - induced vacancies and interstitial atoms, to determine the more movable defect formations that are responsible for gas migration. More movable mixed helium-vacancy cluster is discovered (H+2V). Reactions of pushing out helium from substitutional position by self - interstitial atom as well as hydrogen by helium atom which has come to it have been discovered. It is shown that the latter reaction pointing out the possible competition between He and H, while occupying vacancy trap, can cause He permeability reduction compared to hydrogen permeability, that is to supposed affect gas porosity formation.