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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.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1856-1860
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40031
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ICF dry wall components of high temperature materials are analyzed for temperature response, thermal stress and mechanical stress from induced vibration. The effects of temperature-dependent conductivity and elasticity are assessed for components subjected to sequential heat flux pulses. Graphite, unirradiated and irradiated silcon carbide are considered. It is shown that since graphite has a negative conductivity change and positive modulus change with increasing temperature, the difference between the variable and constant property solutions for stress can be significant, particularly for smaller pulse widths. Such differences are not as great for silicon carbide due to a decreasing modulus with increasing temperature.