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UNC, GE agree to clean up former New Mexico uranium mine
The United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) and General Electric Company will undertake a nearly $63 million, decade-long cleanup project at the former Northeast Church Rock Mine in northwestern New Mexico under a consent decree with the United States, the Navajo Nation, and the state of New Mexico.
Masayuki Yoshikawa, Kalsunori Ikeda, Yuuji Okamoto, Eiichiro Kawamori, Shinji Kobayashi, Yousuke Nakashima, Atsushi Mase, Teruji Cho, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Teruo Tamano, Kiyoshi Yatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 273-277
Oral Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963866
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We have constructed a 2-dimensional Hα line-emission measurement system in order to study neutral hydrogen behavior. We can obtain 2-dimensional radial profiles of hydrogen density by considering a collisional-radiative model. We have also constructed space- and time-resolving spectrograph system in the range of vacuum ultraviolet (VUV). 15–105 nm. studying ion density profiles which directly relates to impurity transport. We measure both Hα line-emissions and VUV spectra from the hot ion mode plasmas in the GAMMA 10 for studying plasma particle confinement and impurity behavior. We found that both particle and energy confinement of the GAMMA 10 plasma was slightly improved during electron cyclotron resonant heating (ECRH) over that without ECRH. From the VUV measurement it is concluded that the impurity ions mainly came into the plasma during its formation phase.