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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.”
Atsushi Imasaki, Fumitalce Murakami, Kunihiko Hattori, Tsuyoshi Yagai, Masashi Ashino, Akira Ando, Hiroyuki Tobari, Mikirou Yoshinuma, Masaaki Inutake
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 324-327
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963471
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Macroscopic behavior of a high-beta and supersonic plasma flow is investigated in the HITOP device. It is found that a cylindrical plasma begins to rotate eccentrically around the center axis in a divergent magnetic mirror. The eccentric radius increases with the increase in the mirror ratio and the beta value of the plasma. The rotating frequency changes with the radial electric field in the plasma, which is controlled by end-plate biasing technique. The rotation direction and its velocity are consistent with E × B drift motion. This behavior seems to be a flute/ballooning mode driven by static and dynamic pressure gradient in a bad curvature region of the divergent field line.