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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.”
Yasushi Seki, Isao Aoki, Shuzo Ueda, Satoshi Nishio, Ryoichi Kurihara, Takashi Tabara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 353-357
Fusion Economics and Reactor Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963639
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The radwaste generated from three fusion power reactors using ferritic steel, V-alloy and SiC/SiC composite were classified into low level waste (LLW) which can be disposed by shallow land burial (SLB) and medium level waste (MLW) which cannot be disposed by SLB because one or more of the radionuclides exceeds the derived limiting concentration value. When the recently developed FENDL/A2.0 library is used, the SLB fraction became 91% for ferritic steel, 36% for V-alloy and 65% for SiC/SiC. It is found that if the Nb impurity content in V-. alloy and N impurity content in SiC/SiC could be reduced to 1/100 (0.15 Wt.ppm) and 1/20 (5times10−4 Wt.%), respectively, the SLB fraction becomes nearly 100% for both materials. On the other hand, the alloying element W content needs to be reduced to further increase the SLB fraction in case of the ferritic steel F82H.