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College students help develop waste-measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
H. Hashizume, T. Nishitani, S. Konishi, Y. Ueda, S. Fukada, A. Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 2 | September 2015 | Pages 201-210
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-947
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Based on long-term research activities on fusion engineering, eleven key technologies for future fusion reactors, especially for demo reactor, were selected in the Working Group of fusion research under the Council for Science and Technology, MEXT.
In this paper, the recent achievement on the following key technologies will be summarized, which are strongly related to the Working Group proposal, 1) Fusion engineering research project in National Institute for Fusion Science, 2) High Tc superconducting magnets, 3) LiPb blanket system 4) Tungsten divertor and 5) Fusion engineering activities under the Broader Approach (BA) framework.