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College students help develop waste-measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
L. I. Krupnik, G. N. Deshko, A. I. Zhezhera, A. A. Chmyga, A. D. Komarov, A. S. Kozachek, A. V. Melnikov, S. V. Perfilov, M. Otte, M. Shubert
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 50 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 276-280
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1246
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A conceptual design for a heavy ion beam probe diagnostic for the stellarator WEGA in Greifswald (Germany) is developed to provide measurements of the radial profiles of the electric plasma potential, density, and their fluctuations. Calculations of probing Na+ beam trajectories were done for the various WEGA diagnostics ports with B0 from 0.087 to 0.5 T. They show that satisfactory access may be possible for C+ C- port combinations.