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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.”
S. Pestchanyi, V. Makhlaj, I. Landman
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 150-156
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-736
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Analysis of comprehensive investigations of divertor armor erosion under action of edge-localized modes (ELMs) using the PEGASUS-3D code has been performed. Different erosion mechanisms for tungsten (W) and carbon fiber composite (CFC) armor materials have been revealed. This difference explains almost 3 orders of magnitude difference in the erosion rates of CFC and W. Investigation of the crack pattern evolution under repetitive ELM-like surface heat load has been done. Special treatment for tungsten armor tiles has been proposed for reduction of dust production rate in ITER operation regime.