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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. J. H. Donné, M. F. M. de Bock, I. G. J. Classen, M. G. von Hellermann, K. Jakubowska, R. Jaspers, C. J. Barth, H. J. van der Meiden, T. Oyevaar, M. J. van de Pol, S. K. Varshney, G. Bertschinger, W. Biel, C. Busch, K. H. Finken, H. R. Koslowski, A. Krämer-Flecken, A. Kreter, Y. Liang, H. Oosterbeek, O. Zimmermann, G. Telesca, G. Verdoolaege, C. W. Domier, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., E. Mazzucato, T. Munsat, H. Park, M. Kantor, D. Kouprienko, A. Alexeev, S. Ohdachi, S. Korsholm, P. Woskov, H. Bindslev, F. Meo, P. K. Michelsen, S. Michelsen, S. K. Nielsen, E. Tsakadze, L. Shmaenok
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 2 | February 2005 | Pages 220-245
Technical Paper | TEXTOR: Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A702
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The diagnostic system of TEXTOR comprises about 50 individual diagnostic devices. Since the start of the Trilateral Euregio Cluster collaboration, part of the emphasis in the experimental program has shifted toward the study of physics processes in the plasma core. To aid these studies several new and advanced core diagnostics have been implemented, whereas a number of other core diagnostics have been upgraded to higher resolution, more channels, and better accuracy. In this paper a brief overview is given of the present set of plasma core diagnostics at TEXTOR.
