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Direct waste transfer process quickens at Savannah River Site
The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site this month marked the first direct transfer of decontaminated waste from the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) to the Saltstone Production Facility (SPF). This is a new step in optimizing waste processing, according to the DOE.
Matthew J. Jasica, Gerald L. Kulcinski, John F. Santarius
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 2 | February 2020 | Pages 110-119
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1693204
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A custom designed and manufactured set of ion guns has been in use at the University of Wisconsin Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Laboratory for both beam fusion experiments and materials implantation experiments. For the first time, direct measurements have been made on the spatial profiles and the mass compositions of He and D ion beams produced by these guns. The results validate assumptions about the circular Gaussian spatial profiles for both He and D ion beams. Mass composition measurements of the He beam identified a pressure-dependent minimum impurity content of 15% N+. The D beam contained relative molecular ion fractions of 58% D3+, 32% D2+, and 10% D+ with impurities of 15% to 20% D2O+. A new experimental platform, the Ion Beam and Source Analyzer was developed to perform these experiments on the ion guns used to irradiate candidate fusion materials.