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New U.S.-Japan agreement on HEU-to-LEU conversion
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT). The MOU describes their commitment to convert the Kindai University Teaching and Research Reactor (UTR-KINKI) from high-enriched uranium fuel to low-enriched uranium fuel. The nuclear nonproliferation–related agreement also calls for the secure transport of all the HEU to the United States for either downblending to LEU or disposition.
Guanghong Wang, Shiying He, Ge Gao, Peng Fu, Liansheng Huang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 1 | January 2019 | Pages 81-87
Technical Note | dx.doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1506625
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The poloidal field (PF) power supply is an important subsystem of the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak as the device status detection and protection are essential. The PF power supply monitor system is based on the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System and the human machine interface is the Control System Studio (CSS). The alarm is a plugin of CSS, used to help operators take correct action at the correct time. This technical note creates the alarm system, including server, client, Java Message Service interface, and relational database and configures the alarm attribute and sets the action for all variables that may trigger the alarm. When the alarm is triggered, the system goes into fault mode, the alarm server sends mail or pops up a window automatically to prompt operators, and some actions may be executed automatically to protect the device. Then operators solve the fault according to the guidance and the system returns to normal, realizing device status monitoring and protection in real time. The EAST experiment shows the alarm system has better function and stable performance.
