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The 2025 ANS election results are in!
Spring marks the passing of the torch for American Nuclear Society leadership. During this election cycle, ANS members voted for the newest vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and six board of director positions (four U.S., one non-U.S., one student). New professional division leadership was also decided on in this election, which opened February 25 and closed April 15. About 21 percent of eligible members of the Society voted—a similar turnout to last year.
D. Iraji, D. Ricci, G. Granucci, S. Garavaglia, I. Furno, A. Cremona, D. Minelli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 3 | November 2012 | Pages 428-435
Selected Paper from Seventh Fusion Data Validation Workshop 2012 (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A15342
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In GyM, a linear magnetized plasma device, low-frequency electrostatic fluctuations are measured by means of Langmuir probes. To complement electrostatic probe measurements of plasma turbulence and the study of plasma structures, a nonperturbative direct imaging system has been used on GyM, including a fast-framing Photron APX-RS camera and an image intensifier unit. From the line-integrated camera images, we compute time-resolved emissivity profiles of the plasma by applying a tomographic reconstruction technique using a pixel method and solving an overdetermined set of equations by singular value decomposition. The validity and robustness of the tomographic reconstruction technique are examined with respect to noise and wall reflection effects.The tomographic reconstruction is applied to fast camera movies acquired with a frame rate of 75 kHz and 4 s of exposure time to obtain the temporal evolution of the emissivity fluctuations. Plasma structures can be detected and tracked in the reconstructed emissivity movies with a finest spatial resolution of 2 cm. Conditional average sampling is used to determine the size and speed of turbulent structures.
