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Tank waste operations resume at Idaho’s IWTU
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced yesterday that waste processing operations have resumed at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. The resumption of operations follows the completion of two maintenance campaigns at the radioactive liquid waste treatment facility.
T. Okita, J. Etoh, M. Sagisaka, T. Matsunaga, Y. Isobe, P. D. Freyer, Y. Huang, J. M. K. Wiezorek, F. A. Garner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 77-82
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-755
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Time-of-flight ultrasonic measurements were conducted on a thick hexagonal block of 304 stainless steel irradiated to ∼33 dpa in EBR-II, and the results of ultrasonic-implied void swelling and carbide-induced densification were compared with those obtained by immersion density measurements and TEM observation. The three types of measurement were found to agree rather well with each other. This study confirmed that ultrasonic velocity measurement is a powerful non-destructive technique to measure the through-thickness-average volumetric changes induced by neutrons in thick structural materials.