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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 96-99
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A615
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In the GAMMA 10 tandem mirror device, an experimental plan of high power ECRH is now under way. As the first step, operation of existing gyrotrons for plug ECRH has been carried out at a power exceeding their nominal powers of 200 kW. In this step, the highest recorded value of [varphi]c for a hot ion mode plasma is 1.4 kV at Pplug = 240 kW. The effective temperature Teff of the end loss electrons as a scaling factor of the axial potential distribution has attained to 3 keV at a heating power of 260 kW and the potential difference between the plug to the end plate has exceeded 5 kV. Then, the potential range of the scaling between and Teff has been expanded. Use of a new gyrotron delivering much higher power is the second step. The first experimental campaign with this gyrotron has just started.