Decommissioning the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor
- Grumman Corp. (United States)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (United States)
The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will complete its experimental lifetime with a series of deuterium-tritium pulses in 1994. As a result, the machine structures will become radioactive, and vacuum components will also be contaminated with tritium. Dose rate levels will range from less than 1 mr/h for external structures to hundreds of mr/h for the vacuum vessel. Hence, decommissioning operations will range from hands on activities to the use of remotely operated equipment. After 21 months of cool down, decontamination and decommissioning (D and D) operations will commence and continue for approximately 15 months. The primary objective is to render the test cell complex re-usable for the next machine, the Tokamak Physics Experiment (TPX). This paper presents an overview of decommissioning TFTR and discusses the D and D objectives.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Plasma Physics Lab.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- OSTI ID:
- 10189472
- Report Number(s):
- PPPL-CFP-2963; CONF-931018-14; ON: DE94001494; TRN: 93:024114
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Symposium on fusion engineering,Hyannis, MA (United States),11-15 Oct 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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