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Texas-based WCS chosen to manage U.S.-generated mercury
A five-year, $17.8 million contract has been awarded to Waste Control Specialists for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on November 21.
S. Thomson, K. Pilatzke, K. McCrimmon, I. Castillo, S. Suppiah
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 475-478
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T58
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A description of the work performed to set up an apparatus to measure permeation rates of hydrogen and tritium in 304L stainless steel is presented. This is in preparation for future work to find and qualify candidate materials resistant to tritium permeation in various advanced nuclear systems.
