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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.
R. Abbott, S. Pemberton, P.F. Peterson, G.-P. Sun, P. Wright, R. Holmes, J. Latkowski, R. Moir, K. Springer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 732-738
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963326
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Thick-liquid pockets have the potential to protect structural materials and increase power density in heavy-ion fusion chambers. Here we show that cylindrical liquid jets have interesting advantages for creating shielding grids for heavy-ion beam lines. A cylindrical nozzle design with a very low convergence ratio was developed, and the fabrication methods needed for inexpensive numerically-controlled machining of large nozzle arrays demonstrated. Cylindrical jets were studied because they give the highest surface smoothness for a given degree of turbulence suppression, allow flow control to individual nozzles for control of jet pointing, and attenuate target-induced shocks effectively. Improved control of the grid geometry allows the driver energy to be delivered by a larger number of beams. These smaller beams–up to 160 in the example here–improve focusing and reduce neutron collimation up beam lines.