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WIPP improves utility shaft safety, begins infrastructure project
Harrison Western Shaft Sinkers (HWSS), the company drilling a new utility shaft at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has retained a safety culture expert following a near-miss accident in the shaft late last year. The safety expert will conduct monthly facilitated discussions with crews working on the shaft to reinforce expectations for identifying concerns regarding unsafe circumstances, according to a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).
Toshihiko Yamanishi et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 2008 | Pages 45-50
Technical Paper | Iter and Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1762
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The R&D for tritium technologies to a demonstration reactor (DEMO) plant are carried out in the Broader Approach (BA) program in Japan: 1) tritium accountancy technology; 2) basic tritium safety research; and 3) tritium durability test. A multi-purpose facility will be constructed at Rokkasho in Japan to carry out the above R&D. Beta and gamma radioisotopes as well as tritium (370 TBq/year) can be handled in the facility.At TPL (Tritium Process Laboratory) of JAEA, a series of R&D programs for tritium technologies have been carried out. The main R&D activities in this field are: tritium behavior in a confinement; monitoring; detritiation; and decontamination. In this paper, the results of recent activities at TPL of JAEA are also summarized from the viewpoint of the related R&D subjects under the BA program.