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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.
Pattrick Calderoni, Alice Ying, Tom Sketchley, Mohamed Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 711-715
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963322
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The design and operating characteristics of the ALICE (Advanced Liquid Ionized Condensation Experiment) facility at UCLA are here presented. The goal of this vapor condensation experiment is to rapidly generate an IFE prototypical post-shot vapor density in a control volume using characteristic liquid chamber material (flibe, Li2BeF4), and investigate the condensation rates for the proposed schemes. This experimental goal is achieved by: 1) a pulsed electrothermal plasma source that simulates the pellet explosion for rapid vapor generation and 2) an expansion chamber that represents the IFE liquid chamber. This paper reports also on the construction and operation of a furnace for flibe casting. Melting and handling procedures connected with the use of flibe are also discussed. The first flibe liner has been inserted in the plasma source. Results from the first low energy experiments are showed.
