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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.
Hajime Suzuki, Akio. Sagara, Nobuyoshi Ohyabu, Osamu Motojima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 523-526
Plasma Particle and Heat Control Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11962955
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Carbon Sheet Pump(CSP) has been proposed to be installed on the vacuum vessel wall of the Large Helical Device(LHD) in order to reduce the hydrogen recycling and improve the energy confinement.
The CSP of C/C composite with temperature below 200 °C can pump high energy hydrogen particles such as charge exchange fast neutrals by trapping them. The saturated hydrogen particles can be removed simply by heating the carbon sheet above 800 °C. One of the requirement on the CSP design for LHD is that the temperature of the vacuum vessel must be maintained to be below 70 °C to avoid excessive heat flux to the LHD superconducting magnet system.
The first design of CSP for LHD is presented, and a successful demonstration of heating the CSP carried out.