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Tank waste operations resume at Idaho’s IWTU
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced yesterday that waste processing operations have resumed at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. The resumption of operations follows the completion of two maintenance campaigns at the radioactive liquid waste treatment facility.
M. Yoshinuma, K. Ida, M. Yokoyama, M. Osakabe, K. Nagaoka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 375-382
Chapter 8. Diagnostics | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10823
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The systems of charge-exchange spectroscopy (CXS) have been improved on the Large Helical Device (LHD). Pitch-controlled fiber bundles give faster readout time, and double-slit fiber bundles increase the number of channels that can be obtained with a single charge-coupled device detector. The evolutions of ion temperature with a sampling time of 10 ms are obtained, and profiles of ion temperature, toroidal rotation velocity, and density of carbon impurity with data at 51 spatial points are measured with the improved CXS systems.