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Fermilab center renamed after late particle physicist Helen Edwards
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Integrated Engineering Research Center, which officially opened in January 2024, is now known as the Helen Edwards Engineering Center. The name was changed to honor the late particle physicist who led the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the lab’s Tevatron accelerator and was part of the Water Resources Development Act signed by President Biden in December 2024, according to a Fermilab press release.
Hirokuni Yamanishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 3 | October 2011 | Pages 1033-1036
Contamination and Waste | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12592
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The depth profile of tritium in concrete near a fusion device has been calculated from an energy spectrum data of neutron which can be obtained by means of a radiation transport calculation code. The production of tritium increases gradually up to 8 cm depth in concrete, and the concentration at this depth is 1.5 times of that near the surface. The concentration will be 12 kBq/cm3 at the maximum point in concrete after 30 years operation at 3 GW fusion power. These profile data of tritium in concrete are useful for decommissioning of a facility.
