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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.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1154-1159
Alternate Fuels and Innovative Confinement Concept | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39849
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The objective of this study is to examine a fusion space propulsion system using D-3He in a reversed field configuration (FRC). Such a configuration provides good confinement and high-β operation with high power densities in a compact design. The reversed field is maintained by a combination of fuel pellet injection and energetic fusion products which create an azimuthal plasma current. The shielding requirements for a design using D-3He are minimized, providing an attractive power to weight ratio. Thrust is achieved through the use of a magnetic nozzle, where propellant is mixed with cold plasma flowing along open field lines and the mixture is exhausted through the nozzle.