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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
Simppa Äkäslompolo, Taina Kurki-Suonio, Seppo Sipilä, ASCOT Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 69 | Number 3 | May 2016 | Pages 620-627
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-184
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Measuring fast ions, most notably fusion alphas, in ITER and future reactors remains an issue that still lacks an adequate solution. Numerical simulations are invaluable in testing the potential and limitations of various proposed diagnostics. However, the validity of the numerical tools first has to be checked against results from existing tokamaks. In this contribution, various synthetic diagnostics for fast ions (collective Thomson scattering, neutral particle analyzer, neutron camera, infrared measurements, fast ion loss detector, and activation probe) from the orbit-following Monte Carlo code ASCOT are compared to measurements from several tokamaks (ASDEX Upgrade, DIII-D, and JET). Within the limitations of the physics included in the numerical model and availability of input data from experiments, the agreement between synthetic data and measurements is found to be quite good.