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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.”
Mahmoud Z. Youssef
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1552-1567
Neutronic and Shielding | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39984
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Described are procedures to be followed in applying cross-section sensitivity and uncertainty analysis to arrive at estimates for the uncertainty associated with an integrated reactor performance parameter R. Means to reduce such uncertainty are outlined. The pertaining computational codes used as analytical tools to carry out the cross-section sensitivity/uncertainty analysis are reviewed with emphasis on their current limitations and possible improvements. The range of the uncertainty in the prediction of the tritium breeding ratio TBR due exclusively to current uncertainties in the nuclear data field is presented as an application for the sensitivity and uncertainty methods and codes.