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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
T.V. Kulsartov, Y.V. Chikhray, I.L. Tazhibaeva, V.P. Shestakov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 919-923
Plasma Facing Components Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963730
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Be-copper alloy duplex structures are planed to be used as the structural material of the first wall for ITER. CuCr1Zr0.1 copper alloy is one of the prospective components of such structures. To ensure safety and to solve ecological problems concerning fusion reactor operation it is necessary to have estimations of tritium inventory in the copper alloy CuCr1Zr0.1 and in Be-copper alloy duplex structures.
In this work the results of the following experiments on determination of hydrogen permeation parameters are presented:
• Investigation of hydrogen permeation for beryllium-copper duplex structure. Experiments were carried out in the temperature range from 873 K to 1023 K, at input hydrogen pressures between 102 Pa and 103 Pa.
• Investigation of hydrogen permeation for copper alloy CuCr1Zr0.1 in the temperature range from 723 K to 973 K, at input pressures of hydrogen between 102 and 103 Pa and for samples with different thickness.
