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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.
Shinichiro Toda, Sanac-I. Itoh, Tetsuyuki Kubota, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Atsushi Fukuyama, Kimitaka Itoh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 489-492
Confinement and Transport Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947135
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Poloidal rotation balance equation is obtained to have various bifurcation types of the solutions when various loss mechanisms arc considered in tokamak plasmas. L/H transition in medium sized devices is predicted to be hard type and that in large sized devices tends to become soft type. Ion loss due to bulk viscosity is found to be negligible compared to ion loss cone loss for the typical parameter regime of tokamaks.