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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Y. G. Li, Ph. Lotte, W. Zwingmann, C. Gil, F. Imbeaux
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 397-405
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11654
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To improve the accuracy of the after-shot plasma equilibrium reconstruction on Tore Supra, the previous EFIT code, which utilizes only magnetic measurements as a constraint (we shall call it EFIT-mag in the text), has been modified into EFIT-pol by taking the far infrared polarimeter measurements into account. With a correct choice of the input parameters (mainly for the P' and FF' polynomial orders and for the weights on Faraday angles), the results reconstructed by EFIT-pol are in good agreement with the experimental values deduced from the magnetic measurements as well as with the CRONOS code simulations. In this paper, after a brief description of the EFIT code, the approach used to parameterize EFIT-pol is presented, and the accuracy improvement is shown for a typical shot of Tore Supra, as well as through statistics on a database of 95 shots of different plasma currents and additional powers.