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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.
Yohei Ozeki, Yuji Hatano, Haruka Taniguchi, Masao Matsuyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1499-1502
Interaction with Materials | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12716
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Sheet type specimens of type 316 stainless steel covered by Cr oxide layers were exposed to tritium gas at 300 °C together with the specimens covered by Fe-rich oxide layers and pure Fe specimens to compare tritium behaviors in oxide films with different Cr contents. Tritium concentration in the oxide layers decreased with increasing Cr content due to reduction in concentrations of hydroxyl species and adsorbed water. In addition, release rate of tritium from Cr oxide layers was larger than that from Fe-rich oxide layers. It was concluded that preparation of thin Cr oxide layer is effective to reduce surface tritium contamination of austenitic stainless steels.
