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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.
Raymond K. Fisher, J. Stephen Leffler, Arthur M. Howald, Paul B. Parks
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 4 | May 1988 | Pages 536-542
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25133
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Alpha particles will interact with the ablation cloud surrounding an injected pellet via charge-exchange (CX) and nuclear reactions. The use of these interactions to diagnose fast confined alphas in a fusion plasma is discussed. Measurement of helium neutrals from multiple CX interactions should allow determination of the incident alpha-energy distribution.
