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Thursday, February 08, 2018, 14:50
35 circles from cast#2 of 14 mm diameter were packed into a graphite sample container.
35 x UO2/C circles = 4.76 g
Graphite container = 5.3 g
Graphite tube is placed inside a target boat.
Boat previously coated with TaC and sintered.
Ta-target boat is wrapped with 3 new Ta foils for heat shielding and the boat was installed in Evap1.
Chamber currently pumping down.
Friday, February 09, 2018, 10:40
Initial IGP1 = 4.54e-7 Torr
Tapped up entire process manually to 520A in 25 min
TGHT = 520 A, 5.49 V
Vacuum coming down indicating carbonization process complete.
Current suddenly tripped off from 520 A to 0 A.
There was not a power outage.
There was good vacuum.
Water cooling did not trip off 
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