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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.
F. Liu, H. Liu, S. Liu, B. Liu, L. Lei, C. Chen, Y. Wu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 208-213
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-729
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China is charged with around 7.5% of the ITER toroidal field (TF) conductor fabrication. In total about 6000 km of Nb3Sn strands need to be supplied for Chinese Domestic Agency (CNDA), and now the TF procurement arrangement (PA) for CNDA is in the last phase, i.e., production. According to the PA, the Domestic Agency (DA) has to verify on a regular basis the room and low temperature measurements carried out by the strand suppliers. The verifications shall be performed by the reference laboratories on the strand verification samples adjacent to the samples used by the strand suppliers for critical current measurements. As the reference laboratory of CNDA, the superconducting strand test laboratory of Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) is undertaking the task of Nb3Sn strand verification. The verifications include diameter, chromium plating thickness, twist pitch direction and length, copper-to-non-copper volume ratio, residual resistance ratio (RRR), critical current (IC) and resistive transition index (n), and hysteresis loss. The verification level was based on the requirements of the ITER PA. From the results, the supplied strands for the TF conductors fulfill well the requirements of the ITER PA.