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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.
V. Piffl, Vl. Weinzettl, A. Burdakov, S. Polosatkin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 231-236
Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963601
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An imaging spectroscopy becomes one of the fundamental method of the radial profile study of the light impurities line emission of high temperature plasmas. The application of the spherical dispersion elements (as diffraction grids and a multilayer mirrors) makes it possible an image of the radial profile of the chosen spectral line intensity.
The line spectrum measurements of the light impurities emission in 50 - 200 nm wavelength range at different plasmas equipment (tokamak CASTOR and GOL-3) has been provided by Seya-Namioka spectrometer equipped by spherical diffraction grid and a two dimensional detection system. The especial arrangement of the optical trace has been used for high imaging resolution in plasma radial direction.
The novel diagnostic method can provide the way of impurity transport investigation [1]. It is well known, the transport effects lead to some deviations of the radial distribution of the line emission density from those calculated using pure coronal equilibrium. They can be deduced from chordal measurements of the radial profiles of the spectral line intensity and or intensity ratios of spectral lines of different ionisation stages both measured by chord-integrating spectrometer.
