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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.
Shohei Matsuda, Kazunari Katayama, Motoki Shimozori, Satoshi Fukada, Hiroki Ushida, Masabumi Nishikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 467-470
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T56
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F82H is a primary candidate of structural material and coolant pipe material in a blanket of a fusion reactor. Understanding tritium permeation behavior through F82H is important. In a normal operation of a fusion reactor, the temperature of F82H will be controlled below 550 °C because it is considered that F82H can be used up to 30,000 hours at 550 °C. However, it is necessary to assume the situation where F82H is heated over 550 °C in a severe accident. In this study, hydrogen permeation behavior through F82H was investigated in the temperature range from 500 °C to 800 °C. In some cases, water vapor was added in a sample gas to investigate an effect of water vapor on hydrogen permeation. The permeability of hydrogen in the temperature range from 500 °C to 700 °C agreed well with the permeability reported by E. Serra et al. The degradation of the permeability by water vapor was not observed. After the hydrogen permeation reached in a steady state at 700 °C, the F82H sample was heated to 800 °C. The permeability of hydrogen through F82H sample which was once heated up to 800 °C was lower than that of the original one.