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WIPP improves utility shaft safety, begins infrastructure project
Harrison Western Shaft Sinkers (HWSS), the company drilling a new utility shaft at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has retained a safety culture expert following a near-miss accident in the shaft late last year. The safety expert will conduct monthly facilitated discussions with crews working on the shaft to reinforce expectations for identifying concerns regarding unsafe circumstances, according to a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).
Yu Ponkratov, E. Batyrbekov, M. Khasenov, K. Samarkhanov, Ye Chikhray
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 4 | May 2021 | Pages 327-332
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1887714
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The paper describes the technology of creating a surface source of high-energy tritium ions and alpha particles formed as a result of a nuclear reaction of the interaction of the 6Li isotope with thermal neutrons .
Different design versions of the developed irradiating ampoule devices are presented, and a description of the experimental reactor facility is given. The paper also describes the scheme of reactor experiments to study the spectral-luminescent characteristics of nuclear-excited plasma of argon. The results of test experiments are presented, and they show the applicability of high-energy tritium ions and alpha particles for nuclear excitation of luminescence of inert gas mixtures.
