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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1317-1320
Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Tritium System | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology In Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30593
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Opportunities for a triton induced nucleosynthesis program using low energy (0–500 keV) beams from dedicated small accelerators are presented. The program is necessary because the role of tritons in the process of light elements primordial nucleosynthesis, via 4He(t, γ)7Li, 7Li(t, n)9Be and 9Be(t,n)11B reactions, is an important discriminator for the two essential models of the Universe formation: standard (homogeneous) Big Bang model (SM) and inhomogeneous Big Bang model (IM). Some aspects concerning necessary experimental conditions - intense triton beams with high energy resolution, stability and reproducibility are briefly discussed. Accelerating intense triton beams imposes severe safety regulations. The intention to use for such a program the electrostatic accelerator, based on rotating disks-DISKTRON D400-4HVG, of the Bucharest Cyclotron Laboratory is presented. Technical requirements for the tritium systems of the accelerator are discussed in two variants: non-intense (<100 nA on the target) triton beams (tritium inventory up to 10 Ci) and intense (> 1µA on the target) triton beams (tritium inventory up to 11 kCi).
