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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.
Jan Wallenius
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 33 | Number 4 | July 1998 | Pages 456-461
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST33-456
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Transmutation of the radiotoxic isotopes 137Cs and 129I using a muon-catalyzed fusion (CF) neutron source is considered. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations show that each fusion neutron may transmute up to 1.7 radiotoxic nuclei, depending on geometry and choice of material. Further, it is found that chemically confining cesium atoms in the compound Cs2O leads to higher transmutation efficiency for a given volume as compared with pure cesium. Assuming that a minimal requirement for applying transmutation to 137Cs is that the inventory half-life with respect to undergoing transmutation is less than twice the natural half-life T1/2 = 30 yr, the highest transmutation rate in a system consisting of a CF source with a maximum achievable intensity of 5 × 1018 n/s is ~5 kg/yr, at an inventory of 300 kg. For larger inventories, the half-life becomes longer. Hence, it seems difficult to achieve a positive energy balance in the process, in contradiction with results of a previous study.