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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
T. Ozaki, S. Morita, R. Kumazawa, K. Nishimura, S. Masuda, A. Ejiri, T. Minami, I. Yamada, K. Narihara, S. Okamura, K. Matsuoka, A. Sagara, H. Idei, S. Kubo, K. Tanaka, C. Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 244-247
Helical Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947079
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The ratio of hydrogen (minority) to deuterium in the ion cyclotron range of frequency (ICRF) heating experiment has been measured using visible spectroscopy. The large increase in the stored energy during ICRF heating is observed with boronization, compared with titanium gettering, mainly because of the reduction of impurity radiation. The minority ratio, however, is not controllable due to the increase in hydrogen amount. After the electron cyclotron resonance discharge cleaning using deuterium gas the hydrogen amount has been successfully reduced. As a result it has been more effective than He-glow discharge cleaning. When the hydrogen minority decreases, the ion heating is expected. The maximum stored energy is obtained with the minority ratio of 30 % at a line-averaged density of 3.3×1013 cm-3.