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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.
T. Shimozuma, M. Yokoyama, K. Ida, Y. Takeiri, S. Kubo, S. Murakami, A. Wakasa, H. Idei, Y. Yoshimura, T. Notake, S. Inagaki, N. Tamura, K. Toi, N. Ohyabu, M. Osakabe, K. Ikeda, K. Tsumori, Y. Oka, K. Nagaoka, O. Kaneko, I. Yamada, K. Narihara, Y. Nagayama, S. Muto, K. Tanaka, T. Tokuzawa, S. Morita, M. Goto, M. Yoshinuma, H. Funaba, T. Morisaki, K. Y. Watanabe, J. Miyazawa, T. Mutoh, T. Watari, K. Ohkubo, LHD Experiment Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 38-45
Chapter 3. Confinement and Transport | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10791
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Core electron-root confinement (CERC), observed in the Large Helical Device as well as in other helical devices, is an improved electron energy confinement mode. It is characterized by a highly peaked electron temperature profile in the core region and appears when the centrally focused electron cyclotron resonance heating power exceeds a certain threshold value. This threshold value has been clarified to associate with the transition of the radial electric field (Er) from the ion root (small negative value) to the electron root (large positive value greater than a few kV/m), based on the bifurcation nature of Er due to the ambipolarity condition of neoclassical transport fluxes that is specific in nonaxisymmetric configurations. It has been experimentally recognized that a steeper Te gradient is realized with a clear transition (power threshold nature) in target plasmas with counter neutral beam injection (NBI) than ones with codirectional NBI. It has been interpreted, based on the heat pulse propagation experiment, to be related to the rational surface or the island induced by the NBI-driven current. Transport analyses have shown that the incremental thermal diffusivity of electron heat transport becomes lower, and the standard thermal diffusivity decreases with the increase of heating power in CERC plasmas.