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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.”
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 4 | December 1963 | Pages 551-556
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A18447
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The asymptotic energy spectrum of thermal neutrons in an infinite medium of beryllium has been calculated for three temperatures: 300°K, 200°K, 100°K, for a constant plane source of neutrons at the midplane. The techniques of multigroup diffusion theory were applied, using Nelkin's first order scattering kernel for Be, and the energy-dependent transport mean free path, λtr(E), calculated by Bhandari. Because of the violent variation of λtr in the vicinity of the Bragg cutoff energy, for the lower moderator temperatures the calculated flux spectrum is quite different from the Maxwellian. At 300°K the deviation from the Maxwellian is small.