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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.”
J. L. Straalsund, R. J. Puigh, J. M. Grover, E. K. Opperman, G. W. Hollenburg
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1109-1114
Nuclear Technology Development Issue and Need (Finesse) | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39919
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Directly related to the key technological issues identified within FINESSE are basic material interactions. These material interactions arise from material property changes and lead to interactive effects which have been identified for several first wall/blanket concepts. Emphasis has been placed upon those interactive effects which are directly related to accumulated neutron damage. For testing purposes the minimum accumulated neutron fluence needed to substantially reduce the uncertainty associated with an anticipated material interaction must be defined. A method of projecting uncertainties associated with interactive effects has been developed to determine these fluence goals for selected issues.