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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission
During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
Irina V. Aleksandrova, Alezandr A. Belolipetskiy, Vjacheslav I. Golov, Vladimir I. Chtcherbakov, Elena V. Makeyeva, Elena R. Koresheva, Igor E. Osipov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 38 | Number 2 | September 2000 | Pages 190-205
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A142
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A precise and accurate knowledge of the characteristics of three-dimensional micro-objects such as inertial confinement fusion (ICF) targets and laser-produced plasmas is required to analyze the results of laser fusion experiments. Significant advances have been made in the development of tomographic information-processing methods for application to ICF target characterization. Topics discussed include (a) new high-resolution algorithm obtained by symmetrizing a basic filtered backprojection algorithm, (b) algorithms for threshold target characterization, (c) new approach to micro-object scanning based on quasi-uniform geometry, (d) ICF target preparation for tomographic characterization.