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Direct waste transfer process quickens at Savannah River Site
The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site this month marked the first direct transfer of decontaminated waste from the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) to the Saltstone Production Facility (SPF). This is a new step in optimizing waste processing, according to the DOE.
H. Homma, H. Kadota, H. Hosokawa, M. Nagata, T. Fujimura, K. Nagai, M. Nakai, T. Norimatsu, H. Azechi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 276-278
Technical Paper | Nineteenth Target Fabrication Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11537
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Recent developments of several key issues for fabrication techniques of cone and shell target for the first phase of the Fast Ignition Realization Experiment (FIREX-I) project at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, are described in this paper. The most important modification of the target design is a double cone, and a new fabrication technique has been developed. Although the error of assembling the cones is still several microns, the first prototype of a double-cone target with a vacuum gap of 20 m was successfully provided for the preliminary experiment. Additionally, Ti:sapphire laser machining was used to bore a hole in the polystyrene shell.