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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.”
Yuki Ishimoto, Yousuke Nakashima, Akio Sagara, Eiichi Ishinuki, Shinji Kobayashi, Masayuki Yoshikawa, Kiyoshi Yatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 249-252
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963453
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In this paper, operational methods of carbon sheet pump (CSP) which aims at control of hydrogen recycling are investigated. Although the pumping effect of CSP is confirmed in an actual plasma device, the experimental results suggest that a certain amount of gases are adsorbed on CSP under an actual plasma circumstance. The operational methods are contrived and are carried out for the reduction of the adsorbed gases on CSP. Time evolution of total pressures in several regions of the GAMMA 10 vacuum vessel is estimated by numerical analysis in order to evaluate the feasibility of applying CSP to the GAMMA 10 central region. These results suggest that CSP is applicable to actual plasma devices under a suitable operational method.