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Tank waste operations resume at Idaho’s IWTU
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced yesterday that waste processing operations have resumed at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. The resumption of operations follows the completion of two maintenance campaigns at the radioactive liquid waste treatment facility.
Oyeon Kum, Seung Uk Heo, Sang Hyoun Choi, Yongkeun Song, Sung-Ho Cho
Nuclear Technology | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2015 | Pages 208-214
Technical Paper | Accelerators | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-121
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Because of the encouraging results obtained at worldwide heavy-ion therapy facilities, the first hospital-based heavy-ion accelerator therapy facility is under construction in Busan, Korea, at the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences. The compact accelerator will deliver beams of heavy ions, specifically carbon ions of energy 430 MeV/u. This study focuses on radiation protection aspects concerning materials activation and facility shielding. Radiation shielding was evaluated with two different Monte Carlo codes (MCNPX and FLUKA), and materials activation studies were performed using FLUKA and a combination of MCNPX+CINDER’90 codes.