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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.”
H. Tsunoyama, T. Kaneko, E. Tada, R. Hatakeyama, M. Yoshinuma, A. Ando, M. Inutake, N. Sato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 186-188
Transport and Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963591
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Plasma flow velocity and its shear perpendicular to magnetic-field lines are generated by using the tungsten hot plate concentrically three segmented, which can form the radially-different plasma potential, or radial electric field even in a fully-ionized collisionless plasma. A drift-like instability which exists in the peripheral region, where the density gradient is relatively large, is observed to be suppressed by the perpendicular flow velocity shear in the central region.