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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.
A. Kojima et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 2005 | Pages 306-308
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A672
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A method for the measurement of the radial flux induced by the electrostatic fluctuations was developed by use of gold neutral beam probes (GNBP). Beam probes were useful devices for the measurement of density and the potential fluctuations in core plasma. The drift wave measured by a GNBP was growing with the finite phase difference between the density and the potential fluctuation. It was found that using the GNBP, the measured drift wave caused the density and the potential profile to be relaxed through the radial particle flux. Since the plasma difference of the electrostatic fluctuations would cause the radial flux, the measurement of the phase difference had been one of the key parameter for the radial confinement.
