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Researchers use one-of-a-kind expertise and capabilities to test fuels of tomorrow
At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
B. Cao, D. P. Stotler, S. J. Zweben, M. Bell, A. Diallo, B. Leblanc
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 1 | July 2013 | Pages 29-38
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A17044
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Gas puff imaging is a two-dimensional diagnostic that measures the edge D light emission from a neutral D2 gas puff near the outer midplane of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). DEGAS 2 is a three-dimensional Monte Carlo code used to model neutral transport and plasma-neutral interactions in fusion plasmas. In this paper, we compare the measured and modeled D light emission for specific NSTX experiments. Both the simulated spatial distribution and the radiance of the D light emission agree well with the experimental data obtained during time periods between edge-localized modes (ELMs) in ELMy H-modes.
