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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.”
Hidematsu Ikeda, Naotake Katoh
Nuclear Technology | Volume 118 | Number 1 | April 1997 | Pages 32-41
Technical Paper | Kiyose Birthday Anniversary Special / Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35354
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An application of a modern control to a pulsed column is considered. Experimentally, a finite time settling control (FTSC) with finite time settling observer (FTSO) algorithms as a modern control scheme for a single loop controller of pulsed columns was selected. The FTSC with FTSO algorithms in this study was based on the step response pattern such as the dynamic behavior for the transfer function. The control objective was to keep the solute concentration in the product stream. First, the control system was designed from the measurement data of a step response using 30% trin-butylphosphate in a kerosene-acetic acid-water system. Then, the control algorithms were applied to the Purex liquid system using the published experimental data of uranium concentration during a transient operation. The controllabilities of pulsed columns are discussed in the direct digital control simulation studies.