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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.
Wednesday, August 05, 2015, 11:05
TGHT reached 200A about 5 hours ago. Organic burn out is complete.
Begin carbonization: Increase TGHT to 520A at 0.1A/min rate.
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