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Hanford completes 20 containers of immobilized waste
The Department of Energy has announced that the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) has reached a commissioning milestone, producing more than 20 stainless steel containers of immobilized low-activity radioactive waste.
P. W. Humrickhouse, J. P. Sharpe, M. L. Corradini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 4 | November 2007 | Pages 1022-1026
Technical Paper | Tritium, Safety, and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1629
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The Toroidal Dust Mobilization eXperiment (TDMX) has been developed to investigate the mobilization of dust in fusion reactor Loss of Vacuum Accident (LOVA) scenarios. TDMX data will be utilized to validate new computational models for dust resuspension and transport in LOVAs. This work describes the modeling of the compressible vessel filling in TDMX using the CFD code Fluent. Results for fast (~0.1 s) pressure transients are found to agree well with experimental and analytical results. Modeling longer transients has thus far been less successful, due primarily to the difficulty in resolving the accompanying small flow passages.