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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.”
B. Schweer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | March 2004 | Pages 434-441
Technical Paper | Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A510
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Plasma can be studied and characterised by the analysis of its radiation1,2. Signals obtained by passive spectroscopy contain much information about temperature, density and flux of the main species and impurities3. The interpretation of measured line intensities requires the knowledge of atomic physics describing the specific radiation from the plasma. Tomographic methods are applied but they need symmetries for the calculation of local parameters. Additionally in magnetic confined plasmas the interpretation might be more difficult due to the Zeeman splitting.