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DOE issues RFQ for clean-energy projects at WIPP
The Department of Energy has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for interested parties that are looking to establish carbon pollution–free electricity (CFE) projects at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in New Mexico.
Hiroto Matsuura, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Suguru Tanaka, Takaaki Iijima, Akira Tonegawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | July 2015 | Pages 76-80
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems 2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-856
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In TPD-SheetIV, a simulation experiment on a long leg divertor configuration has been conducted and hydrogen molecular ion formation in detached plasma was observed. Improvements to the simulation geometry used in DEGAS 2 allowed us to study the effect of leg length on neutral transport. This paper also describes a simple ion balance equation and the ion density ratios obtained with it. From these data, it is shown that a long leg divertor enhances molecular ion density in the divertor, which might enhance molecular assisted recombination.