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25th anniversary of failure (and a chance at opportunity)
Silver anniversaries are usually a cause for great celebration, but this one is a cause for regret and a renewed plea for action. January 31, 2023, marks the 25th anniversary of the Department of Energy’s failure under law and contract to start the removal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from the country’s 74 commercial nuclear power plant sites in 35 states for disposal per the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. I personally know the moral and legal responsibility associated with this failure, because in 1998, as the then responsible DOE official, I had to personally announce it. But much has changed since then. There are many new avenues to address these past problems like federal, state, and community partnerships that can be beneficial for all, if there is DOE leadership and congressional action for both disposal and storage.
F. S. Zaitsev, S. Matejcik, A. Murari, E. P. Suchkov, JET-EFDA Contributors
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 2 | October 2012 | Pages 366-373
Selected Paper from the Seventh Fusion Data Validation Workshop 2012 (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-476
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In tokamaks, the problem of plasma current density and safety factor reconstruction, given the available measurements, can be strongly unstable with respect to the input data. Different constraints are used in practice to make the problem more stable. Traditionally, methods for equilibrium reconstruction search for one solution of the Grad-Shafranov equation with a set of constraints. However, the questions of the efficiency of a constraint in selecting a solution; the required accuracy of the measurements; the existence of very different solutions, which are compatible with the measurement errors; and the detailed assessment of the reconstruction confidence intervals are not addressed. This paper presents a numerical algorithm, based on the -net technique, which provides answers to all these questions. Examples of application of the method to the analysis of ITER- and JET-like plasmas are given.
