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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.”
Makoto Matsukawa, Shinichi Ishida, Akira Sakasai, Gen-Ichi Kurita, Yushi Miura, Tsunehisa Terakado, Yoshikazu Ohmori, Syunzo Ohmori, Jun Okano, Katsuhiro Shimada, Nobuyuki Hosogane
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1106-1110
Plasma Engineering, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963392
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The JT-60 facility is now planning to replace the existing machine with a superconducting machine (JT-60SC) in order to proceed with advanced studies of steady state plasmas with high performance core conditions close to those of fusion reactor. A maximum plasma current of 4 MA and duration of 100 s are expected. Existing toroidal and poloidal field coils and vacuum vessel will be completely replaced. Since the present JT-60 system has been designed for a plasma current duration of 15 s, the coil and power supply systems need to be reconstructed to ones with a long pulse capability. This paper describes the new JT-60 machine and the design of the coil power supply system.