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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.
T. Iijima, S. Hagiwara, S. Tanaka, A. Tonegawa, Kazutaka Kawamura, Kohnosuke Sato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 417-419
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16973
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Ion acceleration of high density sheet plasma (ca. 1018 m-3) in a non-uniform magnetic field by ion-cyclotron resonance (ICR) is investigated in a linear divertor plasma simulator, TPD-Sheet IV. The radio frequency (RF) electrodes consist of two parallel plates. The ion energy along the axis of the magnetic field or in the perpendicular direction was measured using a Faraday cup. The experiment was conducted using helium gas and a discharge current of 50 A. The ion energy in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic field line increases by with ion-cyclotron resonance. Ions are also accelerated along the axis of the magnetic field line due to the magnetic field gradient along the axis.
