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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.
S. Tanaka, T. Iijima, A. Tonegawa, K. Kawamura, K. N. Sato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 420-422
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16974
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Experimental simulation of a V-shaped target for a gas divertor via detached plasma formation is presented using a linear divertor plasma simulator, TPD-Sheet IV. Three geometries of the opposite plate on the V-shaped target were investigated with variation of the contact gas flow rate. The ionization and recombination events are discussed for each target configuration using the collisional-radiative (CR) model. The results expect that a gas divertor with a V-shaped target effectively enhances plasma recycling and detachment.
