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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. Rusinov et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 229-232
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16912
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Deuterium retention after the low energy plasma irradiation was investigated using the polycrystalline tungsten samples of which grain elongation directions are parallel and perpendicular with respect to the surface. Fluence dependence of the retention measured by means of thermal desorption spectroscopy showed that it is 2-5 times larger for the sample with the perpendicular grain elongation. Thermal desorption of trapped deuterium has been modeled under the fast diffusion assumption with the defects trapping energy of about 2 eV. Possible mechanism of the deuterium retention and thermal desorption has been proposed.
