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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.
J. F. Latkowski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 956-959
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963364
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In December 1999 and January 2000, a 40-cm-thick spherical shell of sprayable concrete (“gunite”) was applied to the exterior surface of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) target chamber. Glow-discharge mass spectroscopy has been used to determine the elemental composition of multiple gunite samples, which were collected at the time of application. These measured compositions are compared to the anticipated composition and both are used for neutron activation calculations. Contact dose rates are reported and implications for doses rates during operation and for the eventual facility decommissioning are discussed.