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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.”
Wanjing Wang, Qiang Li, Sixiang Zhao, Shengping Chang, Yue Xu, Zhenmao Chen, Zhensheng Yuan, Yingli Shi, Sigui Qin, Lingjian Peng, Guohui Liu, Guang-Nan Luo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 125-130
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-772
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Recently, the EAST W/Cu divertor components, including the ITER-like monoblock W/Cu units and flat-type W/Cu units, have been developed by Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in collaboration with Advanced Technology and Materials Co., Ltd. (AT&M). To detect the bonding quality in these multiple layer geometry W/Cu plasma-facing components (PFCs) at each step of their manufacture, special nondestructive testing techniques have been researched and developed. For monoblock W/Cu PFCs, the bonding at both W-Cu and Cu-CuCrZr interfaces was qualified by spiral ultrasonic testing (UT) with a focus probe, which was inserted into the CuCrZr tube with a flexible driving tube. Artificial defects with defined size have been measured by UT and compared with the results of high heat flux testing (HHFT). The HHFT demonstrated that the monoblock W/Cu mock-up qualified by this UT has withstood 1000 cycles of heat load at 10 MW/m2. The bonding quality of flat-type W/Cu mock-ups has also been inspected by the usual water-gap UT. The results from HHFT at 5 MW/m2 demonstrated that the present UT was unreliable for the quality control of the flat-type W/Cu PFCs.