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Tank waste operations resume at Idaho’s IWTU
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced yesterday that waste processing operations have resumed at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. The resumption of operations follows the completion of two maintenance campaigns at the radioactive liquid waste treatment facility.
L. C. Cadwallader, P. I. Petersen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 382-387
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Tritium and Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A364
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The reliability of selected DIII-D vacuum components has been studied to give indications of how well the vacuum confinement would perform if a liquid wall experiment were operated on a device such as the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). Data from the DIII-D vessel and vacuum system are generally applicable to the NSTX because their designs are similar. The DIII-D has accumulated operating experience data over 15 years of operations, and DIII-D-specific reliability values are comparable to previous reliability estimates for vacuum components.