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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.
D. Akashi, Y. Takeshita, S. Nakamoto, H. Takeno, Y. Yasaka, Y. Furuyama, A. Taniike
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 301-303
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16935
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The new energy recovery method using secondary electron emission has been studied in order to improve energy recovery from high energy protons of fusion products in D-3He nuclear fusion generation. The model experiments were performed by using the tandem electrostatic accelerator and the basic characteristics were investigated. According to our results, for penetration aluminum is better as a target material than copper, H+ is better than He2+, and higher energy beam is better which agree with numerical calculations. A qualitative characteristic of secondary electron emission dependence on beam energy was also obtained.