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IAEA report confirms safety of discharged Fukushima water
An International Atomic Energy Agency task force has confirmed that the discharge of treated water from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is proceeding in line with international safety standards. The task force’s findings were published in the agency’s fourth report since Tokyo Electric Power Company began discharging Fukushima’s treated and diluted water in August 2023.
More information can be found on the IAEA’s Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated Water Discharge web page.
R. Preuss, U von Toussaint
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 69 | Number 3 | May 2016 | Pages 605-610
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-178
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Computer codes modeling plasma-wall interactions of fusion plasmas are costly in computer power and time—the running time for a single parameter setting is easily on the order of weeks or months, not to mention the expenditure for parametric studies. We propose to exploit the already gathered results in order to predict the outcome in the high-dimensional parameter space. For this, we utilize the Gaussian process method within the Bayesian framework. Uncertainties of the predictions are provided that point the way to parameter settings of further (expensive) simulations.