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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.”
Chien-Hsiung Lee, I-Ming Huang, Chin-Jang Chang, Tay-Jian Liu, Yuh-Ming Ferng
Nuclear Technology | Volume 126 | Number 1 | April 1999 | Pages 48-61
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2957
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The RELAP5/MOD3.2 code is used at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research Integral System Test Facility to analyze a 2% cold-leg-break experiment that includes failure of the high-pressure injection system. The assessment code predictions include primary pressure, inventory distribution in the reactor coolant system (RCS), loop flow rate, break flow rate, and core thermal hydraulics. A comparison between the calculated results and the experimental data shows (a) a good match with the predictions of the RCS pressure and hot- and cold-leg fluid temperatures, (b) underprediction of the core and downcomer levels, (c) overprediction of the loop flow rates in single- and two-phase natural circulation, and (d) inadequate prediction of asymmetric coolant holdup in the three steam generators. Also presented are sensitivity studies of choked flow associated with the defaulted values of discharge coefficients in the simulation of the break flow, and of the core bypass area to evaluate the effect of core level depression.