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Hanford contractor settles fraud suit for $3.45M
Hanford Site services contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) has agreed to pay the Department of Justice $3.45 million as part of a settlement agreement resolving allegations that HMIS overcharged the Department of Energy for millions of dollars in labor hours at the nuclear site in Washington state.
Thomas W. Eichenberga, Andrew C. Klein
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1680-1685
Material and Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29583
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Strict control over tritium production and inventory must be obtained by any electrical utility operating a magnetic confinement fusion reactor plant if they do not want to be in the business of tritium production beyond the requirements for their own plants. A computer model has been developed to analyze the tritium inventory in a multiple compartment tritium handling system. Analysis has been conducted to explore a variety of reactor system operational parameters and modes including the effects of varying the TBR to achieve a constant storage inventory, the effects of actual operational cycles including an annual down time for blanket replacement, and the effects of failures of various components within the tritium processing stream.