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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 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 873-878
Magnetic Fusion Reactors/Beam-Driven Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946952
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Tokamak reactors burning advanced fuels must operate at high plasma densities and temperatures. Under these conditions large bootstrap currents can be generated with modest externally driven seed currents. Large total currents give rise to long energy confinement times and a safe ignition margin. The paper discusses high pressure DT–, DD– and D3He–tokamak reactor concepts based on the bootstrap drive of the toroidal current.