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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.”
R. Herbermann, V. Albanese, A. Favale, S. Gralnick, R. Micich, J. Rathke, J. Rose, T. Anderson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 420-424
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-A40080
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This paper describes the conceptual design of a Fast Wave Current Drive (FWCD) alumina ceramic loaded coupler for the Princeton Large Torus (PLT). An antenna capable of launching RF at 800 MHz was required. While phased waveguide arrays allow the coupling of correctly phased waves to the plasma, their large size (when used in air or vacuum) would preclude their application for PLT. However, the utilization of a dielectric loaded waveguide results in a reduction in size of waveguide elements by the square root of the dielectric constant1,3. A description of the various approaches considered during the RF design, mechanical design, and component fabrication studies is included.