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In a recent interview on New York radio station 77 WABC, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin talked with host John Catsimatidis about the near-term future of the domestic nuclear industry and the role the EPA will play in the sector.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1353-1358
Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Tritium System | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology In Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30600
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The overall control architecture serving the European Tritium Handling Experimental Laboratory (ETHEL) consists of two types of apparatus:1) Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Personal Computers (PCs), networks which constitute the so-called Distributed Digital Control System (DDCS); 2) Fail-safe hard-wiring which operates independently of the DDCS. This paper deals with the first type of apparatus; its hardware and software are described. The computerized system, defined by a four-level hierarchical and modular architecture, is a large distributed Real-time Control System. The operation is mainly centralised in the Control Room through a fully programmable man-machine interface (graphic displays, trends, etc.).
