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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.”
M. Nakahira, S. Kakudate, K. Oka, N. Takeda, K. Akou, K. Taguchi, Y. Takiguchi, E. Tada, K. Shibanuma, T. Burgess, R. Haange, E. Martin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1160-1164
Remote Maintenance Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963770
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According to the ITER R&D program, a full-scale vehicle manipulator for handling a 4-ton blanket module was fabricated and tested. The measured manipulator performance satisfy the blanket handling capability. In addition, a full-scale double-seal door was fabricated and assembled to the transfer cask to verify the docking and open/close operations for divertor maintenance. This paper presents design outline and performance test results of these fabricated full-scale remote handling equipment.