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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
Y. Z. Zhao, C. D. Hu, Q. L. Cui, S. H. Song, Y. H. Xie, W. Liu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 5 | July 2022 | Pages 360-368
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2031442
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To explore the generation and extraction of negative ions for neutral beam injection, a prototype radio-frequency (RF)–driven negative ion source is designed at the test facility, which is under construction at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP). The control system provides beam pulse set up, remote supervision, plant control, timing synchronization, data management, and interlock and protection for the RF negative ion source. It plays an important role in negative ion source operation. The negative ion source prototype is currently in the development phase, involving more than 20 plant units. To match the requirements of control, data acquisition, and protection for different plant units, the plant control loop time is designed within the range of 10 μs to 100 ms, timing synchronization accuracy is 1 μs, the maximum sampling interval for data acquisition is 10 ms, the volume of data storage is tens of terabytes/year, and the interlock and protection response time is designed within the range of 10 μs to 100 ms. This paper describes the conceptual design of the control system for the prototype RF-driven negative ion source at the ASIPP, discusses the system requirements and the specifications for the control system, and shows the present status of system integration.
