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Argonne opens registration for D&D training course
Registration is open for Argonne National Laboratory’s Facility Decommissioning Training Course, a four-day instruction designed for those responsible for the decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and who are looking to understand the full breadth and depth of the D&D processes.
The next session will be held July 16–19 in Santa Fe, N.M. Information on the course and how to register can be found here.
F. R. A. Onofri, S. Barbosa, M. Wozniak, J. Mroczka, D. Vrel, C. Grisolia
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 1 | July-August 2012 | Pages 39-45
PFC and FW Materials Issues | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Part A: Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A14109
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We investigate the ability of light extinction spectrometry (LES) to characterize, at long distances, the size distribution and concentration of dust mobilized by laser cleaning methods (ITER wall detritiation and characterization of deposition layers) or by experiments dealing with a loss-of-vacuum accident. Potentially harmful effects induced by wall proximity, plasma plume broadband emission, and associated shock waves are shown to have a negligible influence on LES measurements, which demonstrates the interest in this optical technique for the aforementioned studies. However, our experimental results, based on aerosols of silica and tungsten powder aggregates, show that the present setup allows the characterization of dust volume fractions of less than [approximately equal]1-10 ppb for a probing length of 1 m (or by extrapolation [approximately equal]0.1-1 ppb for a probing length of 10 m).