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DOE-EM issues draft RFP for Hanford lab work, awards WIPP monitoring grant
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management issued a draft request for proposals on June 25 for the Hanford Site’s 222-S Laboratory contract. The 222-S Laboratory is the primary on-site laboratory for analysis of highly radioactive samples in support of all projects at the DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington state.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 681-686
Inertial Confinement Experiment | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40236
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The implosion experiment of spherical pellet and the physics investigation which is relevant to implosion process have been performed by using GEKKO XII glass laser since its commission in 1983. Simulation codes have been reinforced by introducing the experimental results and physics model to increase the credibility and quantitative accuracy in predicting the ignition and burn conditions. The fusion ignition and burn to achieve energy gain for reactor seems to be feasible.