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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.”
Lee A. James
Nuclear Technology | Volume 74 | Number 1 | July 1986 | Pages 84-92
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33821
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Fatigue-crack growth specimens from a number of austenitic stainless steels and weldments [annealed Types 304 and 316, 20% cold-worked Type 316, SA-351 Grade CF8, Type 304/308 shielded-metal-arc (SMA) weldments, and Type 316/IN-82/IN-718 gastungsten-arc weldments] were irradiated in Experimental Breeder Reactor-II. Postirradiation crack-growth testing showed little or no effect of irradiation on the crack growth behavior of annealed Type 304, coldworked Type 316, and Type 304/308 SMA weldments. On the other hand, irradiation produced a minor reduction in crack growth rates in annealed Type 316 and minor increases in crack growth rates in SA-351 Grade CF8 castings and Type 316/IN-82/IN-718 GTA weldments over certain ranges of ΔK.