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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.”
T. L. Sanders‡, D. E. Klein, M. E. Crawford
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 251-256
Blanket and First-Wall Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40053
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A liquid metal facility using the eutectic composition of sodium and potassium (NaK) as the working fluid has been designed and constructed at The University of Texas at Austin. The facility is capable of experimentally modeling magnetohydrodynamic flow through many of the geometries envisioned for fusion related systems, particularly blanket designs. A study currently in progress involves the measurement of the magnetohydraulic pressure drop across a packed bed of electrically conducting spheres. Reynolds numbers based on volume flow rate and sphere diameter range from 5 to 300, and Hartmann numbers range from 0 to 200, resulting in an interaction parameter range up to 4000.