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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.
S. Sakakibara, H. Yamada, K. Toi, A. Ejiri, K. Ida, H. Iguchi, K. Matsuoka, T. Minami, T. Morisaki, S. Morita, O. Motojima, K. Narihara, K. Nishimura, S. Okamura, K. Tanaka, J. Xu, I. Yamada, K. Watanabe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 231-234
Helical Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947076
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In low density plasmas of CHS, it has been observed that co- direction of neutral beam injection strongly influences the characteristics of MHD mode. The fluctuation level is strongest in all operational regime of CHS plasmas. The effect of beam driven currents on this mode was investigated experimentally from a viewpoint of an interchange mode. The experimental results indicate that the characteristics of this mode strongly depend on the net toroidal current. It suggests that this mode is an ideal interchange mode because of the suppression of the fluctuation level due to the increase in magnetic shear.