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Direct waste transfer process quickens at Savannah River Site
The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site this month marked the first direct transfer of decontaminated waste from the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) to the Saltstone Production Facility (SPF). This is a new step in optimizing waste processing, according to the DOE.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 520-525
National Ignition Facility | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11962992
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The relationship of the NIF mission to the future use of high-energy lasers for scientific research is discussed. A brief outline of the reasons that scientific use is being encouraged is followed by two examples of the type of research that have been performed on the existing high-energy lasers. By showing which technical achievements have been made, we can then illustrate what projects are currently ripe for investigation on existing facilities, and we can also conservatively predict what research is important but will have to wait for NIF-class lasers.