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Dr. Jeremy Whitlock
SPLITTING ATOMS,CANADIAN STYLE
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories(Chalk River, Ontario)
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Chalk River Laboratories
CHALK RIVER LABS
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GENERATOR
TRANSFORMER
ELECTRICALGRID
WATER
STEAM
WINDTURBINE
HOW DO WE MAKE ELECTRICITY?
“Hydro”“Wind”“Fossil”“Nuclear”
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“THERMAL POWER STATIONS”
“Fossil”“Nuclear”
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Fossil 13%
Nuclear 59%
Nuclear 16%
Hydro 59%
Fossil 23%
CanadaOntario
Where does our electricity come from?
Hydro 24%
Wind 2%Wind
4%
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Nuclear energy
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“CANDU”: Canada Deuterium Uranium“CANDU”: Canada Deuterium Uranium
“One of Canada’s top ten engineering achievements of the past century”
Canadian engineering centennial, 1987(EIC, CCPE, ACEC)
(Other nine: CPR railway, St. Lawrence seaway, Polymer Corp. synthetic rubber,oil sands development, Hydro Quebec HV transmission system, Beaver aircraftAlouette satellite, Bombardier snowmobile, trans-Canada telephone network)
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Let’s look under the hood …
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Nuclearfission
happens here
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Nuclear fission “splitting the atom”
50,000 atoms would fit across even the thinnest human hair
Everything is made of billions
of atoms:
nucleus (> 99% mass)
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protons neutrons
Inside the nucleus: PROTONS and NEUTRONS
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1 uraniumatom
2 “fission products”
1 neutron
2 or 3 moreneutrons
Heat !
Okay, let’s go fission!
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BUT… first we need to slow those neutrons down!
Uranium
Water (lots of hydrogen atoms)
SlowNeutrons
FastNeutrons
Speed:about 1 km/s
Speed:about 10,000 km/s(~ 10% speed of light)
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Let’s build a nuclear reactor!
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HEAVY WATER (moderator)
HEAVY WATER (coolant)URANIUMFUEL
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CONTROL RODS
HEAVY WATER (moderator)
HEAVY WATER (coolant)URANIUMFUEL
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Refuelingwithout
shutting down
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Fueling machine replaces: • 110 fuel bundles per week• a pair of bundles in 2½ hrs
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STEAMGENERATOR
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“Very Heavy Lift” (VHL) mobile crane
350 tonne steam generator
Darlington station
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CANDUfuel bundle
50 cm
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UO2 Fuel Pellets
Fuel Pellet: 10 of these provide one home’s electricity for a year
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“Calandria”
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Qinshan, China
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Point Lepreau turbine-generator (NB)
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CANDU Spent-Fuel On-Site Storage:water-filled bays (short term)
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CANDU Spent-Fuel On-Site Storage:Modular above-ground air-cooled concrete bunkers (long term)
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Long-Term Management:“Adaptive Phased Management”
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Mining (Saskatchewan) Milling (Saskatchewan) Refining (Blind River)
Short-term Storage Electricity Generation (40-60 years) Conversion (Port Hope)
Medium-term Storage Long-term Management
500 m
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Pickering, Ontario(1971-73, 1983-86) Darlington, Ontario (1990-93)
Bruce, Ontario(1977-79, 1985-87)
Pt. Lepreau, New Brunswick(1983)
Gentilly 1 and 2, Quebec(1971, 1983)
Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD), Ontario (1962)
CANDUin
Canada Douglas Point, Ontario (1966)
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CANDUaround
the world
Wolsong, South Korea(1982, 1997-99)
Embalse, Argentina (1984)
Cernavoda, Romania(1996, 2006, …?)
Rajasthan, India(1973, 1982)
Kanupp, Pakistan (1972)
Qinshan, China(2002-03)
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1 CANDUfuel bundle
(50 cm long, 23 kg)
=
Total electricity needs of a family for
100 years
Nuclear Energy doesn’t use much fuel
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400 tonnescoal
60,000 galoil
= 10 million ft3
natural gas=
1000 tonnes CO2
1 tonne particulates8 tonnes acid gas
=1 CANDUfuel bundle(50 cm long,
23 kg) 600 tonnes CO2
1 tonne acid gas
Nuclear Energy doesn’t use much fuel
… or generate much waste!
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What else can we do with nuclear energy?
Nuclear medicine!
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Using radiation to diagnose diseaseand fight cancer
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Chalk River Laboratories
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NRU Research Reactor(AECL Chalk River)
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Thank you!
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories: www.cnl.ca
“The Canadian Nuclear FAQ”: www.nuclearfaq.ca