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Knoxville’s nuclear workshop opens with a full house and a long to-do list
The East Tennessee Economic Council’s Nuclear Opportunities Workshop opened yesterday morning at the Knoxville Convention Center, drawing registrants from around the country, and will close later today following a packed lineup of policy and industry leaders.
M. Minami, Mitsubishi Heavy, H. Morita, Mitsubishi Heavy, T. Nagashima, T. Imai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 516-521
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23230
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The prospect of developing a 750-mm gate valve for the JT-60 radio frequency heating system is discussed. In order to decrease the sealing force applied to the gasket, a sealing system with two H-type gaskets and intermediate vacuum chamber (double seal type design) is planned. Tests for 103 cycles repeated operation at room temperature and 150°C with a full-scale model of the valve seat confirm that valve seat leakage is less than 1.33×10−9 Pa·m3/s (1×10−8 Torr · ℓ/s) for helium gas and the sealing force applied to the gasket is less than 9.81×104 N/m (10 kgf/mm).