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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.”
Sang-Yong Lee, Chang-Hwan Ban
Nuclear Technology | Volume 148 | Number 3 | December 2004 | Pages 335-347
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT04-A3571
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Several researchers have endeavored to develop methodologies to extrapolate the uncertainties gathered from reduced-size facilities to the full-size nuclear power plant. They are all based on the general guideline of the code scaling, applicability, and uncertainty (CSAU) method. Although there is an extensive compilation of experimental and theoretical databases and a detailed guide about the best-estimate calculation of loss-of-coolant accidents, these applications are dissimilar to each other. The absence of a procedure to implement the requirement of direct data comparison with integral- and separate-effects tests in determining the code uncertainty is the main cause of the differences. To overcome this problem, a code-accuracy-based uncertainty estimation (CABUE) technique has been developed, in which the code accuracy becomes the measure of the selection of code parameters and the determination of the ranges of them. An application of this technique to a Westinghouse three-loop nuclear power plant has been successfully performed.