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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.”
Shigefumi Okada, Fuji Kodera, Katsuhisa Kitano, Michiaki Inomoto, Satoru Yoshimura, Mamoru Okubo, Satoshi Sugimoto, Shoichi Ohi, Seichi Goto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 295-298
Field Reversed Configuration and Neutron Sources | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963618
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Plasmas with field reversed configuration (FRC) are confined in open systems and have extremely high beta value of about 100% and they are one of candidates for an attractive reactor. But, in many cases they are produced in theta pinch apparatus and accessibility of additional heating facilities is poor. In order to solve this problem and to realize density appropriate for neutral beam injection, technology of translation is useful. By the translation, an FRC plasma is ejected out from theta pinch formation region and is translocated into a confinement region. With this translation, experiments related to sustain and control the FRC plasma become to be accomplished. Actually, axial magnetic compression, neutral beam heating and low frequency RF wave heating experiments are carried out on the FRC Injection Experiment (FIX) apparatus.