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Disa seeks NRC license for its uranium mine waste remediation tech
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received a license application from Disa Technologies to use high-pressure slurry ablation (HPSA) technology for remediating abandoned uranium mine waste at inactive mining sites. Disa’s headquartersin are Casper, Wyo.
Lutz Bornschein, Beate Bornschein, Michael Sturm, Marco RÖllig, Florian Priester for the KATRIN collaboration
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 274-277
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T9
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One of the most important questions in fundamental physics and cosmology are the origin and the masses of fundamental particles, in particular the neutrino masses. KATRIN will allow a model-independent measurement of the neutrino mass scale with an expected sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c2 (90% CL). KATRIN will use a source of ultrapure molecular tritium and is currently being built up at the site of KIT, thereby making use of the unique expertise of the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe. This paper presents the status of the KATRIN experiment, with the focus on its Calibration and Monitoring System, which is the last component being subject to R&D.
