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DOE-EM finishes cleanup of legacy Oak Ridge reactor lab site
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that the 30-foot-long, 37,600-pound reactor vessel from Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Low Intensity Test Reactor was shipped to EnergySolutions’ low-level radioactive waste facility in Clive, Utah, in late April.
N. S. Yoon, B. H. Park, J. G. Yang, S. M. Hwang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 427-431
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963899
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Results of global discharge modeling and simulation of the Hanbit magentic mirror discharge are given and an RF heating theory and its results are presented.
In the global discharge model, global transport equations of ions and electrons are solved including and impurity recycling equations. Based on the developed global model, the effect of oxygen impurity on the discharge characteristics is simulated. Also, Maxwell-Boltzmann equations are solved by the mode analysis technique to develop a theory of the radio frequency (RF) wave heating mechanism in a magnetic mirror discharge condition. Utilizing the solution the discharge impedance is calculated for the case of slot antenna. Moreover the plasma resistance is divided into an electron resistance and and ion resistance which indicate absorbed powers by electrons and ions, respectively.