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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.”
Y. Nakagawa, J.E. Meyer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1783-1788
Power Conversion, Instrumentation, and Control | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40019
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A pulsed fusion reactor potentially influences many commercial plant design provisions. Provisions related to turbine fatigue performance are among those considered important. They are evaluated by varying several design/operating parameters, separately and in combination, to present tradeoffs among them. These parameters include pulse length and capacity of the thermal storage system. A very simple and fast running temperature/stress representation of the turbine is used for evaluations. Results for wet-steam turbines indicate that requirements for thermal storage are quite large (steam flow between 40 and 80% of full steam flow). Modeling assumptions, design options, and important operating considerations are highlighted.