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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
A. Listopad et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 274-276
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11633
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Currently a joint experimental program is performed on the RUDI injector at the TEXTOR tokamak in a collaboration between the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS and the Research Center Juelich (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH). The diagnostic injector RUDI is used for charge-exchange recombination spectroscopy (CXRS) diagnostic at the tokamak TEXTOR. Since the spatial resolution and CXRS signal level depend on diagnostic beam divergence and beam full-energy component current density, respectively, these beam parameters should be controlled to provide stable CXRS measurements. The beam density distribution, the angular divergence and the species composition, can be measured optically by spectroscopic means. The absence of perturbations to the beam investigated is one of the main advantages of optical diagnostics.