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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.”
Hiroshi Maekawa, Fujio Maekawa, Yukio Oyama, Chikara Konno, Yujio Ikeda, Kouichi Tsuda, Seiya Yamaguchi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 1086-1091
Fusion Blanket, Shield, and Neutronic Technology | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40298
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The tritium production-rate (TPR) is a very important neutronic parameter in the D-T fusion blanket research. The following five techniques for the measurement of TPR have been developed at FNS/JAERI: (1) Subtraction method using a pair of Li-glass scintillators, (2) Indirect method using a small sphere NE213 scintillator, (3) Liquid scintillation method with Li2O pellet, (4) Liquid scintillation method with Li2O plate/block (zonal method), and (5) LiF TLD self-irradiation method. This paper describes these methods, comparison of their features, and their typical results for the blanket benchmark experiments at FNS.
