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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. Tanaka, T. Suzuki, S. Mori, S. Yamazaki, M. Misumi, T. Tone, T. Kobayashi, H. Watanabe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 947-952
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-A40155
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Applicability of Li2O pebble type breeder has been investigated. Current experimental and analytical studies reveal that problems of thermal stress cracking and vaporization mass transfer can be resolved. Design feasibility studies of Li2O pebble type blanket have been performed for the FER and a power reactor. Results show that Li2O pebble breeder makes it possible to design blankets with high breeding ratio and high breeder integrity which can satisfy design requirements with some allowance for uncertainties or variations of parameters.