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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. Weede, J. Vetrovec, H. Beck, J. Chiu, A. Goldner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1247-1252
Impurity Control and Vacuum Technology | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39938
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An actively-cooled dump module design is being developed for use in the MFTF-B long pulse neutral beamlines. The modular approach allows for application of the same design inseveral different areas, such as positive ion dumps, neutral dumps and beamline apertures. The dump modules are required to dissipate up to 1.2 MW of beam power with peak heat fluxes as high as 1500 W/cm2 for a lifetime of 50,000 cycles. The modules are constructed from two rows of 1.91 cm O.D. × 0.318 cm wall (0.75 × 0.125 in.) oxygen-free copper tubing, staggered to achieve maximum optical density. The tubes are bent into a “C” shape and connected to large diameter manifolds at each end. Thermal analysis of conduction in the tube wall has been performed to predict inner wall heat flux and tube wall temperature profiles. The results have been used both as an input to critical heat flux assessment as well as an input to NASTRAN stress analysis. The NASTRAN analysis has shown that tube deflections will be within allowable limits and that the design life will be ≅ 100,000 cycles.