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College students help develop waste measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Qingyi Tan, Xueyu Gong, Qianhong Huang, Yijun Zhong, Tao Yang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 1 | January 2022 | Pages 76-88
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1936846
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A theoretical study on a ferrite stub tuner antenna system for ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating is discussed in this paper. High amounts of radio frequency power can be reflected at the antenna as a result of impedance mismatches arising from large changes in the plasma resistance during L- to H-mode transitions or edge localized modes. A fast-response ferrite stub tuner network has been proposed to mitigate these reflections by rapidly varying the impedance to match the rapid load changes on the ICRF antenna. This study numerically shows the influence relationship of the normalized mechanical length and the ratio of the ferrite part of two ferrite stubs on the regulating range of a biasing magnetic field of two stubs. A prematching stub can be used to reduce the standing-wave voltage on the ferrite tuners. The analysis of the ideal position and length of the prestub as well as the distance between the ferrite network and prestub are presented. Numerical simulations demonstrate that selecting ideal values for mechanical length and the ratio of the ferrite part of two ferrite stubs plays an important role in the impedance matching performance of the triple ferrite system during a large variation in plasma resistance.