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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.”
Masaru Nagura, Akihiro Suzuki, Takeo Muroga, Takayuki Terai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | August 2009 | Pages 841-845
Tritium Breeding | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A9015
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Er2O3 is one promising material for use as an insulating coating in a liquid lithium blanket system. In this study, corrosion of bulk Er2O3 in Li with high or low O concentrations was investigated at 600°C. The tests revealed that the corrosion reaction is accelerated under high O condition and suppressed in low O concentration. From these results we assumed the corrosion reaction and tested with more precise condition. The Er2O3 bulk specimen corroded significantly in Li with more than 300 ppm O. Control of O concentration is essential for a Li blanket system with an Er2O3 coating.
