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BWXT announces nuclear manufacturing plant expansion
BWX Technologies announced today plans to expand and add advanced manufacturing equipment to its manufacturing plant in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
A $36.3 million USD ($50M CAD) expansion will increase the plant’s size by 25 percent—to 280,000 square feet—and another $21.7 million USD ($30M CAD) will be spent on new equipment to increase and accelerate its output of large nuclear components. The investment will increase capacity and create more than 200 long-term jobs for skilled workers, engineers, and support staff, according to the company.
Peter Jung
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 33 | Number 1 | January 1998 | Pages 63-67
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A16
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Hydrogen is considered one of the major problems for ferritic and martensitic steel structures in future fusion reactors. In contrast to hydrogen from other sources, hydrogen produced by nuclear transmutations cannot be kept away by barriers but must be drained off through the surfaces. An upper limit of the diffusion distance is derived at which the stationary concentration of hydrogen stays below the critical concentration for hydrogen embrittlement. In addition a lower limit for the effusion time is given that is needed to reduce the hydrogen concentration below a certain level during shutdown periods. Similar considerations are applied to the target of a planned spallation neutron source.