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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.”
J.P. Sharpe, M.A. Bourham, J.G. Gilligan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1424-1428
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963148
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An experimental system has been developed to study disruption-induced aerosol mobilization for fusion accident analysis. The SIRENS high heat flux facility at North Carolina State University has been modified to closely simulate disruption conditions expected in tokamak reactors [1]. A hot vapor is formed by an ablation-controlled are and expansion cooled into a glass chamber, where particle condensation and growth occurs. The particles are collected and analyzed for relevant transport properties (e.g. size distribution and shape). Particle characterization methods are discussed, and preliminary results based on simple analysis techniques are given.