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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.
W. A. Cooper, J. P. Graves, T. M. Tran, R. Gruber, T. Yamaguchi, Y. Narushima, S. Okamura, S. Sakakibara, C. Suzuki, K. Y. Watanabe, H. Yamada, K. Yamazaki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 50 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 245-257
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1242
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The three-dimensional (3-D) VMEC code has been modified to model an energetic species with a variant of a Bi-Maxwellian distribution function that satisfies the constraint B[nabla][script F]h = 0, and the 3-D TERPSICHORE stability code has been extended to investigate the effects of pressure anisotropy in two limits. The lower limit is based on a purely fluid Kruskal-Oberman (KO) energy principle (ignoring the stabilizing kinetic integral), and the upper limit is obtained from an energy principle in which the hot particle pressure and current density refrain from interacting with the dynamics of the instability because their diamagnetic drift frequency is considered much larger than the dominant growth rate. We have specifically investigated the instability properties of a Heliotron device with a major radius of 3.9 m and total <> [approximately equal to] 3.9%, where the energetic particle contribution <h> varies from 0 to 1.3% for T