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Nuclear Dirigo
On April 22, 1959, Rear Admiral George J. King, superintendent of the Maine Maritime Academy, announced that following the completion of the 1960 training cruise, cadets would begin the study of nuclear engineering. Courses at that time included radiation physics, reactor control and instrumentation, reactor theory and engineering, thermodynamics, shielding, core design, reactor maintenance, and nuclear aspects.
P. V. Subhash, Y. Ghai, S. K. Amit, A. M. Begum, P. Vasu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 4 | May 2015 | Pages 705-717
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-823
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The differences in the electron cyclotron emission spectrum from a tokamak plasma between a direct line of sight (LOS) (normal to the toroidal magnetic field) and a slightly oblique LOS have been modeled. A typical ITER tokamak scenario has been chosen in this study. The usefulness of such an additional detector for obtaining a better radial resolution is examined. The intensities of the radiation, as observable from the low-field side, covering the first harmonic ordinary mode spectral frequencies ∼120 to 230 GHz have been compared. We find that at certain frequencies the radiation observed along the oblique view seems to come from a narrower region. This affords the possibility of realizing better radial spatial resolution, compared to that possible by a direct view alone, for localizing any fluctuations, identifying abrupt changes in the temperature profile, etc. The physical reasons for the code-predicted differences between the direct and oblique spectra are elucidated. The translation of the radial resolution calculations into realistic phenomena is studied for two situations: neoclassical tearing modes and a damped sinusoidal perturbation. For both cases, the oblique view yields a better reproduction of the situation.