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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
Guoliang Yuan, Lingfeng Wei, Zuowei Wen, Jinwen Zhang, Qingwei Yang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 5 | July 2022 | Pages 420-426
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.2002503
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The fission chamber plays a key role in International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) neutron flux measurement. However, the matched preamplifier cannot tolerate the strong radiation of ITER. This can be solved by using a cable to transmit the signal from the detector to the preamplifier. The object of this project is to develop charge preamplifiers that admit a long cable as input. The input stage and gain stage of the charge preamplifier in previous work have been improved to reduce the rise time and noise degradation caused by the capacitance of the long cable. The experimental results confirm that the preamplifier can admit the fission chamber detector and a 20-m cable.