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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.
Hideaki Matsuura, Yasuyuki Nakao
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 114-118
Plasma Engineering and Diagnostics | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8886
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The alpha-particle emission spectrum in beam-injected deuterium-tritium (DT) plasma is examined by solving the Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck (BFP) equations for deuteron, triton and alpha-particle simultaneously. It is shown that owing to the existence of energetic component in fuel-ion energy distribution functions due to neutral-beam injection (NBI) and/or nuclear elastic scattering (NES), the fraction of the energetic (> 3.52MeV) alpha-particle generation rate increases significantly compared with the case for Gaussian distribution. Aiming at an application to plasma diagnostics, correlation between the modification of the emission spectrum and the gamma()-ray generation rate from 9Be(,n)12C reaction is studied.