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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 381-386
Electrical and Nuclear Component Design | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40074
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Frequently, high-power pulsed ion cyclotron range of frequency experiments are limited by breakdown at the vacuum feedthrough. This paper describes the development and testing of vacuum feedthroughs to increase both reliability and capability. The ultimate goal of the program is to develop a continuous-wave feedthrough for the next generation of fusion experiments. A feedthrough concept currently under investigation consists of a simple, cylindrical alumina ceramic brazed between tapered coaxial conductors. A prototype has been tested to voltage levels in excess of 100 kV for 100-ms pulses and 70 kV for 5-s pulses at 28 MHz. Insertion-voltage-standing-wave ratios are <1.15:1 for frequencies below 450 MHz. An upgraded water-cooled version being fabricated for use on TEXTOR will be described.