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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.
R. L. Johnson, B. E. Nelson, O. B. Adams, J. F. Lyon, T. C. Jernigan, P. B. Thompson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1296-1301
Alternate Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23035
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The Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF-1) is a torsatron being designed at ORNL as a replacement for the ISX-B tokamak. The concept for the device includes two continuous helical field coils and a set of twelve toroidal field coils. The vacuum vessel is placed inside the helical field coils and an external toroidal shell support structure is provided to react all coil and vacuum vessel loads. The present design status for all systems is discussed.
