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Hanford completes 20 containers of immobilized waste
The Department of Energy has announced that the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) has reached a commissioning milestone, producing more than 20 stainless steel containers of immobilized low-activity radioactive waste.
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Refueling by hydrogen ice pellet injection has been studied in various plasmas. The research of pellet ablation related to refueling is very important object. In the central-cell plasma of tandem mirror GAMMA 10, we measured the position of pellet ablation by vertical and horizontal arrays of H detectors and a high-speed CMOS camera. We found that the penetration depths with applying electron cyclotron heating (ECH) is shorter than that without ECH. It suggests that the pellet ablation is strongly affected by warm electrons produced with ECH. Moreover, we investigated the effects of neutral beam injection (NBI) to the pellet ablation, which showed the pellet ablation in the situation of higher density plasma. The pellets penetrate through the plasma without applying ECH or NBI. We observed the pellet ablation at each position by using vertical and horizontal arrays of H detectors and a high-speed CMOS camera with the interference filter.