Thursday, July 30, 2015, 17:10

The mixture of UO2/C was prepared on July 13, 2015.  See screen shot for more info. 

The material is loaded into a target boat and wrapped with 3 layers of Ta-heat shield. 

 Chamber is currently being pumped down

Target boat will be ramped up to 520A at the rate of 0.1A/min

Vacuum limit stop at 5.0e-5 Torr, backing off at 6.0e-5 Torr.

 Friday, July 31, 2015, 14:33

Chamber has been pumped down overnight, currently at 3.3e-6 Torr.

Manually stepping up to 35A.

Set auto ramping TGHT to 200A at 0.1A/min for over the long weekend.  This current should be safe to just burn off the organic binder but not to start the carbonization process.