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Bahrain signs a nuclear collaboration MOU with the U.S.
Less than a week after news broke of the U.S. entering into civil nuclear talks with Malaysia, the U.S. State Department announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani have also signed a memorandum of understanding concerning civil nuclear cooperation.
Fabio Pisano, Barbara Cannas, Alessandra Fanni, Giuliana Sias, Marcin W. Jakubowski, Peter Drewelow, Holger Niemann, Aleix Puig Sitjes, Yu Gao, Victor Moncada, Glen Wurden, W7-X Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 8 | November 2020 | Pages 933-941
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1819750
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is the most advanced operating stellarator in fusion research. The monitoring and control of the heat loads on the plasma-facing components (PFCs) will be critical during the next operation phase in which the ten water-cooled divertors will have to withstand heat loads of the order of 10 MW/m2. This paper gives an overview of the image analysis tools for camera spatial calibration and scene modeling that are an essential part of the real-time PFC protection system currently under development at the W7-X. Some applications of these tools are also provided, specifically for the strike-line characterization.