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A day in the life of the nuclear community
The November issue of Nuclear News is focused on the individuals who make up our nuclear community.
We invited a small group of those individuals to tell us about their day-to-day work in some of the many occupations and applications of nuclear science and technology, and they responded generously. They were ready to tell us about the part they play, together with colleagues and team members, in supplying clean energy, advancing technology, protecting safety and health, and exploring fundamental science.
In these pages, we see a community that can celebrate both those workdays that record progress moving at a steady pace and the exceptional days when a goal is reached, a briefing is delivered, a contract goes through, a discovery is made, or an unforeseen challenge is overcome.
The Nuclear News staff hopes that you enjoy meeting these members of our community—or maybe get reacquainted with friends—through their words and photos.
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 | dx.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.
