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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.
M. Salewski, M. Nocente, A. S. Jacobsen, F. Binda, C. Cazzaniga, J. Eriksson, B. Geiger, G. Gorini, C. Hellesen, V. G. Kiptily, T. Koskela, S. B. Korsholm, T. Kurki-Suonio, F. Leipold, D. Moseev, S. K. Nielsen, J. Rasmussen, P. A. Schneider, S. E. Sharapov, M. Stejner, M. Tardocchi, JET Contributors, ASDEX Upgrade Team, EUROfusion MST1 Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 74 | Number 1 | July-August 2018 | Pages 23-36
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1380482
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Bayesian integrated data analysis combines measurements from different diagnostics to jointly measure plasma parameters of interest such as temperatures, densities, and drift velocities. Integrated data analysis of fast-ion measurements has long been hampered by the complexity of the strongly non-Maxwellian fast-ion distribution functions. This has recently been overcome by velocity-space tomography. In this method two-dimensional images of the velocity distribution functions consisting of a few hundreds or thousands of pixels are reconstructed using the available fast-ion measurements. Here we present an overview and current status of this emerging technique at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak and the JET toamak based on fast-ion D-alpha spectroscopy, collective Thomson scattering, gamma-ray and neutron emission spectrometry, and neutral particle analyzers. We discuss Tikhonov regularization within the Bayesian framework. The implementation for different types of diagnostics as well as the uncertainties are discussed, and we highlight the importance of integrated data analysis of all available detectors.