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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.”
Robert D. Woolley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1174-1178
Alternative and Advanced Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963772
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Abandoning superconductors for magnetic fusion reactors and instead using resistive magnet designs based on cheap copper or aluminum conductor material operating at “room temperature” (300°K) can reduce the capital cost per unit fusion power and simplify plant operations.1 By increasing unit size well beyond that of present MFE. conceptual designs using superconducting electromagnets, the recirculating power fraction needed to operate resistive electromagnets can be made as close to zero as needed for economy without requiring superconductors. Other advantages of large fusion plant size, such as very long inductively driven pulses, may also help reduce the cost per unit fusion power.2