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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Joseph Petrella (PPPL)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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3D transient CFD simulation of an in-vessel loss-of-coolant accident in the EU DEMO fusion reactor
Andrea Zappatore (Politecnico di Torino), Antonio Froio (Politecnico di Torino), Roberto Zanino, Gandolfo Alessandro Spagnuolo (PPPT Department, EUROfusion Consortium)
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Tritium trapping in soil immersed in tritiated water
Kazunari Katayama (Kyushu University), Daiki Ishii, Yuji Hatano, Akira Taguchi
Impact of off-site tritium hazard evaluations on the design and regulation of commercial tokamak DT fusion devices
Robert Patrick White (MIT)
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