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Texas-based WCS chosen to manage U.S.-generated mercury
A five-year, $17.8 million contract has been awarded to Waste Control Specialists for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on November 21.
Dirk Reiser, Abdessamad Mekkaoui
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 237-240
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16914
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A global drift-fluid model is employed to study plasma discharges in linear devices including self-consistent treatment of electric fields. Numerical results on plasma rotation and turbulent scales are found to be very similar to experimental observations. Also a pronounced intermittent plasma transport in radial direction is observed for particular conditions. Extended filaments are expelled from the plasma column. In the simulations numerical probes have been implemented for detailed statistical analysis of the plasma fluctuations suitable for comparison with experimental data. In this contribution particular attention is paid to the impact of the plasma source on the intermittencies in the plasma column. It is found that even slight modifications in the shape of the plasma source can strongly change the plasma dynamics.
