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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.
Y. Ichimasa, M. Ichimasa, H. Jiang, K. Katsuno, H. Noguchi, S. Yokoyama, H. Amano, M. Atarashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 877-882
Tritium Safety | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30515
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The oxidation activity of molecular tritium (HT) in soils and vegetation collected in experimental plots during the 1994 chronic HT release experiment at Chalk River was determined in in vitro laboratory experiments after the release. HT oxidation activity was highest in surface soils in the natural plot, about 3–4 times that in soils in the cultivated plots. HT oxidation activity in weeds and Komatsuna leaves was about 2 and 0.4 % of that in the cultivated soil, respectively. The number of HT-oxidizing bacteria isolated from soils was highest in the surface soil (0–5 cm) in the natural plot. The viable cell numbers in surface soils in the cultivated and natural plots were almost the same. The total occurrence rates of HT-oxidizing bacteria in the surface soils were 22 % in the natural plot, and 7.5 % in the cultivated plot. The occurrence rates of HT-oxidizing airborne bacteria during the release on two culture media were 4.2 and 1.9 %.
