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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.”
Thomas H. Batzer, Wayne R. Call
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1281-1283
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-A39944
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To predict the leak rates of liquid helium and liquid nitrogen containers at operating conditions we need to know how small leaks (10−8 to 10−5 atm-cm3 air/s), measured at standard conditions, behave when flooded with these cryogens. Two small leaks were measured at ambient conditions (∼750 Torr and 295 K), at the normal boiling points of LN2 and LHe, and at elevated pressures above the liquids. The ratios of the leak rates of the liquids at ambient pressure to the gases (G) at ambient pressure and room temperature were: The leak rate ratio of LN2 at elevated pressure was linear with pressure. The leak rate ratio of LHe at elevated pressure was also linear with pressure.