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Fermilab center renamed after late particle physicist Helen Edwards
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Integrated Engineering Research Center, which officially opened in January 2024, is now known as the Helen Edwards Engineering Center. The name was changed to honor the late particle physicist who led the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the lab’s Tevatron accelerator and was part of the Water Resources Development Act signed by President Biden in December 2024, according to a Fermilab press release.
Keitaro Kondo, Ali Abou-Sena, Frederik Arbeiter, Jörg Brand, Ulrich Fischer, Dennis Große, Axel Klix, Lei Lu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 228-234
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-743
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The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is an accelerator-based intense neutron source to test fusion reactor materials under irradiation conditions expected to be experienced by a future fusion power plant (DEMO). The Tritium Release Test Module (TRTM) is intended for the irradiation of solid breeder ceramics as well as beryllium involving in-situ tritium release measurements in IFMIF. During the EVEDA (Engineering Validation Engineering Design Activities) phase, a detailed engineering design for the TRTM has been elaborated. A new 3-dimesional Monte Carlo geometry model of TRTM was prepared for a neutronic analysis directly from engineering CAD data using the McCad conversion software developed at KIT. The analysis was performed with the latest version of the Monte Carlo code McDeLicious, an enhancement to MCNP5 for IFMIF neutronics calculations, using a state-of-the-art nuclear data library FENDL-3. The result emphasizes the importance of the neutron reflector which should be placed behind TRTM in order to make the irradiation properties close to the European HCPB DEMO. Although the achievable dpa is lower than that expected in DEMO, the T/dpa and He/dpa values can be simulated very well when the neutron reflector is appropriately designed, in particularly by utilizing beryllium.