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Judge temporarily blocks DOE’s move to slash university research funding
A group of universities led by the American Association of Universities (AAU) acted swiftly to oppose a policy action by the Department of Energy that would cut the funds it pays to universities for the indirect costs of research under DOE grants. The group filed suit Monday, April 14, challenging a what it termed a “flagrantly unlawful action” that could “devastate scientific research at America’s universities.”
By Wednesday, the U.S. District Court judge hearing the case issued a temporary restraining order effective nationwide, preventing the DOE from implementing the policy or terminating any existing grants.
R. Lässer, M. Glugla, P. Schuster, T. Hayashi, H. Yoshida
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 520-524
Analysis and Monitoring | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22643
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The main three subsystems of the ITER Tritium Fuel Processing Plant, the Tokamak Exhaust Processing (TEP) System, the Isotope Separation System (ISS) and the Storage and Delivery System (SDS), are equipped with enough instrumentation to control the various processes. In addition to this system-dedicated instrumentation, a central facility called Analytical System (ANS) has been designed for i) verification and determination of the composition of the various gas mixtures processed in the Tritium Fuel Processing Plant and ii) checking and monitoring the local equipment. The analytical requirements of the subsystems of the ITER tritium plant are summarised. A comparison of various analytical techniques revealed that gas chromatography is the most suitable method. The design of the Analytical System comprising three micro and two conventional gas chromatographs and its safe operation are discussed in detail.
