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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.”
W. Kernbichlerb, G. H. Miley, M. Heindler
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1142-1147
Alternate Fuels and Innovative Confinement Concept | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39847
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The intrinsic potential of D-3He as a reactor fuel is investigated for a large range of 3He to D density ratios. A steady-state zero-dimensional reactor model is developed in which much care is attributed to a proper treatment of fast fusion products. Useful ranges of reactor parameters as well as temperature-density windows for driven and ignited operation are identified. Various figures of merit are calculated, such as power densities, net power production, neutron production, tritium load and radiative power. These results suggest several optimistic conclusions about the performance of D-3He as a reactor fuel. aSupported by Fonds zur Foerderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Bundeswirtschaftskammer and Friedrich Schiedel-Stiftung, Austria, Internat. Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, and US DOE contract No. DEFG02-86ER52127. bPermanent address: Alternate Energy Physics Program, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria