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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.
A.A. Ivanov, P.A. Bagryansky, P.P. Deichuli, S.A. Korepanov, A.A. Lizunov, S.V. Murakhtin, V. Ya. Savkin, G. Fiksel, D. Den Hartog
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 265-267
Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963609
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The measurements of the radial profile of β for two-component plasma were performed on the gas-dynamic trap using the MSE diagnostic. The maximal value of magnetic field perturbation (ΔB/B) was 0.2 allowing to estimate the β as 40%. The profile radius was ≈7 cm, which is only slightly greater than the fast ion gyroradius mapped onto the GDT midplane. The possible mechanisms of a steep plasma pressure profile is under consideration.
