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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.
Deqaun Liu, Tao Lin, Tao Qiao, Lijun Cai, Chengzhi Cao, Yinglong Yuan, Qiang Li
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 2 | February 2023 | Pages 179-188
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2105634
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The HL-2M tokamak was constructed at Southwestern Institute of Physics. The support system is one of the main subsystems of the device. The magnetic coils and vacuum vessel are located and integrated by the support system. According to its function, the support system is divided into gravity support, support for poloidal field coils, and anti-torque structure for toroidal field coils. The structure design and the finite element analysis of the support system is introduced in this paper.
