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Glass strategy: Hanford’s enhanced waste glass program
The mission of the Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection (ORP) is to complete the safe cleanup of waste resulting from decades of nuclear weapons development. One of the most technologically challenging responsibilities is the safe disposition of approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive waste historically stored in 177 tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
ORP has a clear incentive to reduce the overall mission duration and cost. One pathway is to develop and deploy innovative technical solutions that can advance baseline flow sheets toward higher efficiency operations while reducing identified risks without compromising safety. Vitrification is the baseline process that will convert both high-level and low-level radioactive waste at Hanford into a stable glass waste form for long-term storage and disposal.
Although vitrification is a mature technology, there are key areas where technology can further reduce operational risks, advance baseline processes to maximize waste throughput, and provide the underpinning to enhance operational flexibility; all steps in reducing mission duration and cost.
D. Jiang, Y. Y. Li, X. Q. Wu, T. Zhang, B. Lyu, X. Gao, G. S. Xu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 6 | August 2020 | Pages 723-730
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1777670
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Understanding the influence of edge toroidal rotation in confined plasmas on the L-H transition is important for improving the plasma performance of future fusion devices. We report the results of experiments on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) to study this relationship. We used edge toroidal charge exchange recombination spectroscopy (eCXRS) as a diagnostic to study edge toroidal rotation. By analyzing the contribution of each term in the radial electric field, our experimental results show how the L-H transition depends on the edge toroidal rotation. Generally, the power of the transition increases with increasing edge toroidal rotation. The observed reduction of injected power can be explained by the change of the edge radial electric field. This reduced power threshold at lower toroidal rotation could provide an important benefit for inherently low-rotation plasma devices such as ITER and the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR).