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Oregon bill would create new feasibility study
Historical photo of Trojan nuclear power plant, ca. 1974. (Photo: DOE)
As concerns over growing energy needs persist, yet another state is reconsidering nuclear power. A piece of legislation is currently progressing through Oregon’s legislature that would direct the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE) to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of deploying new power reactors in the state.
Keisuke Fujii, Ichihiro Yamada, Masahiro Hasuo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 74 | Number 1 | July-August 2018 | Pages 57-64
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1396179
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Manual uncertainty propagation from possible noise sources has often been adopted for data analysis in many fields of science, including the analysis of Thomson scattering measurement data in fusion plasma science. However, it is not possible to perfectly model all the noise sources and their distributions. In this work, we propose a more data-driven approach for the noise modeling of multichannel measurement systems. We directly modeled the noise distribution by tractable density distributions parameterized with neural networks and trained their weights from a vast amount of measurement data. We demonstrated an application of this method in Thomson scattering measurement data for the Large Helical Device project. This method enabled us to make a realistic inference even without sufficient prior knowledge about the noise.