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Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Tank waste operations resume at Idaho’s IWTU
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced yesterday that waste processing operations have resumed at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the Idaho National Laboratory Site. The resumption of operations follows the completion of two maintenance campaigns at the radioactive liquid waste treatment facility.
P.A. Bagryansky, A.V. Anikeev, A.A. Ivanov, V.V. Maximov, S.V. Murakhtin, K. Noack
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 259-261
Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963607
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The report presents the recent results of experiments with deuterium neutral beam injection in the Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT) device. The experiments were to demonstrate the peaking up of the DD reaction near the fast ion turning points that represents the essential feature of the GDT-based neutron source (GDT-NS). The critical assumption for feasibility of GDT-NS is that the fast ion relaxation in the warm target plasma is to be determined by two-body Coulomb collisions without considerable increase of the scattering rate caused by instabilities, otherwise the neutron flux peaks may strongly flatten out. The comparison of the measured axial profile of the DD reaction intensity with simulation results allows to validate this assumption for the plasma parameters of GDT device