Technology Applied to Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor D&D

摘要

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is the National Center for Fusion Energy Research. The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor accomplished the most recent and significant research using a 50/50 mixture of Deuterium-Tritium experiments that produced high-energy neutrons (14 Mev). In 1999, PPPL initiated the Deactivation &Decommissioning (D&D) of this highly, tritium-contaminated and activated reactor and its components. This type of D&D was unprecedented and consequently required a significant research and development effort to identify or develop technology that would safely dismantle this reactor facility.