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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).
Richard E. Nygren
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1203-1215
Blanket and First Wall Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23022
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This overview of first wall, blanket and shield technology focuses first on trends in important design issues from the 1970's to the 1980's, then on current perceptions of critical issues in first wall, blanket and shield design and related technology. The emphasis is on base technology rather than either systems engineering or materials development, on the two primary confinement systems, tokamaks and mirrors, and on production of electricity as the primary goal for development.