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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.
Ronald L. Miller
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 3 | October 2007 | Pages 427-431
Technical Paper | The Technology of Fusion Energy - Experimental Devices and Advanced Designs | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1525
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Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) occupies an intermediate region between conventional Magnetic Fusion Energy (MFE) and Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE). A particular approach, extrapolated from the ongoing FRX-L experimental effort, involves the generation of a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) suitable for translation along an axial magnetic field and cylindricalliner (i.e., converging flux conserver) implosion and pdV heating to burn conditions. The fusion gain, Q (ratio of DT fusion yield to the sum of initial liner kinetic energy plus plasma formation energy), sets the pulsed power-plant duty cycle. The modular power-plant embodiment recalls the Fast Liner Reactor (FLR) and shares stand-off and blast-mitigation features of the recent characterization of the Z-IFE. Recycle and economic remanufacture of destroyed front-end apparatus must be performed under tight cost constraints. A tin-lithium alloy is being investigated for multifunctional suitability as the liner, transmission-line, and primary coolant/breeder material. Key performance drivers are described.