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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.”
Johndale C. Solem
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 1040-1045
Antimatter Energy Sources | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946978
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Nuclear explosive spacecraft propulsion offers the high thrust and high specific impulse required for manned interplanetary missions. To achieve high velocity requires either long shock absorber or a large number of tiny nuclear explosions. Microexplosions are attractive, but presently conceived drivers are very massive. Antiproton induced microfusion/fission may provide a light-weight alternative. Generally the energy from antiprotons is deposited over such a large region of space that it cannot efficiently drive nuclear capsules. Antiproton induced fission and self-generated magnetic fields may greatly enhance energy localization.