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“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.”
K. Konashi, N. Sasao, P. Louvet, I. Sato, Y. Hirao
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 664-672
Accelerator/Reactor Waste Transmutation | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946916
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The transmutation of fission products by resonance capture is shown to be possible by using a moving concept target. Instead of controlling the neutron energy to irradiate the nuclei, the nuclei to be transmuted are accelerated toward a neutron thermal field. The transmutation rate of 99Tc is then reduced from 2.1 105 years to 14 hours. Possible experimental devices to realize this moving target and the required confinement time are described and studied briefly. They include a device using microparticles of fission products, as well as a concept derived from magnetic fusion. Both are compared with a different concept issued from inertial fusion.