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College students help develop waste measuring device at Hanford
Workers at Hanford recently used a new tool that uses radar to measure the depth of waste in underground tanks. (Photo: DOE)
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.
Washington State engineering students worked with WRPS personnel to design what the DOE is calling “a safer and more efficient way” to measure the depth of the waste in Hanford’s large underground tanks.
Kenneth V. Salazar, Stevan G. Pattillo, Mitchell Trkula
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 38 | Number 1 | July 2000 | Pages 69-73
Technical Paper | Thirteenth Target Fabrication Specialists’ Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A36119
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Capsules with beryllium ablators are very important targets for the DOE National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser in the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program. Two leading candidates for fabricating beryllium capsules are the machining and bonding of hemispheres, and physical vapor deposition of beryllium onto plastic or other shells. An attractive possibility would be to coat a spherical mandrel with a thin layer of beryllium by a non-line-of-sight process. This coating could be applied via the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of beryllium. Our first attempt at coating beryllium via CVD was done by using bis(cyclopentadienyl)beryllium, (C5H5)2Be, as the precursor material. Results obtained by use of (C5H5)2Be as the precursor material is discussed. However, difficulties we encountered with use of the (C5H5)2Be precursor material led us to examine a relatively unexplored area of beryllium chemistry, namely that of its amines. This redirection also led us to change surrogate material for use in the developmental work.
