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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.”
Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Yuji Torikai, Makiko Saito, Vladimir Alimov, Naoyuki Miya, Yoshitaka Ikeda
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 428-431
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T46
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Disassembly of the JT-60U torus was started in 2010 after 18 years D2 operations. In future the vacuum vessel will be treated as non-radioactive ones after the clearance procedure under the Japanese regulation depending on the tritium (T) contamination level. Note that the vessel was manufactured from Inconel 625 steel. Therefore, it was very important to study the hydrogen isotope behavior in Inconel 625 from viewpoint of the clearance procedure. Inconel 625 specimen was exposed to the D2 (92.8 %) – T2 (7.2 %) gas mixture at 573 K for 5 hours. The tritium release from the specimen at 298 K was controlled for about 1 year. After that a part of tritium remaining in the specimen was released by heating up to 1073 K. Other part of tritium trapped in the specimen was measured by chemical etching method. Most of the chemical form of the released tritium was HTO. The contaminated specimen by tritium was released continuously the diffusible tritium under the ambient condition. In the tritium release experiment, the amount of desorbed tritium was about 99% during 1 year. It was considered that the tritium in Inconel 625 was released easily. From these results, the behavior of tritium in the vacuum vessel of the JT-60U torus will be evaluated and discussed