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Education and training to support Canadian nuclear workforce development
Along with several other nations, Canada has committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. Part of this plan is tripling nuclear generating capacity. As of 2025, the country has four operating nuclear generating stations with a total of 17 reactors, 16 of which are in the province of Ontario. The Independent Electricity System Operator has recommended that an additional 17,800 MWe of nuclear power be added to Ontario’s grid.
Yuzhong Jin, Wei Zhao, Christopher Watts, James P. Gunn, Guangwu Zhong, Xiang Liu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 2 | February 2019 | Pages 120-126
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1520577
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An all-welded ITER divertor Langmuir probe (DLP) model was analyzed by ANSYS 17.0. Temperature field and surface convective heat transfer were obtained by fluid analysis using ANSYS/CFX under both steady-state (10 MW/m2) and slow transient-state (20 MW/m2 for 10 s) working conditions. Mechanical analysis was performed with the temperature field as the preloading condition. The equivalent von-Mises stress and plastic strain distribution have been obtained. The analyzed results show that the DLPs would withstand very high temperature, which can reach 1852°C mainly owing to the extremely high heat flux as well as photon irradiation. The maximum temperature of the copper connection between the DLP and the monoblock would be 792°C, demonstrating that the bonding structure would not be destroyed. All the materials except the alumina pipe have undergone plastic yield analysis, implying that a low cycle strain-fatigue analysis needs to be done in the near future.