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NSI report addresses supply chain bottlenecks
A new report commissioned by the Nuclear Scaling Initiative, conducted by energy consultant Solestiss, and funded by the Bezos Earth Fund, identifies and recommends solutions to overcome current bottlenecks in the supply chain for advanced reactors.
Broadly speaking, the report recommends the repeated deployment of Gen III+ reactor designs to rebuild the foundation of domestic manufacturing, workforce, and qualification capacity.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | March 2004 | Pages 434-441
Technical Paper | Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A510
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Plasma can be studied and characterised by the analysis of its radiation1,2. Signals obtained by passive spectroscopy contain much information about temperature, density and flux of the main species and impurities3. The interpretation of measured line intensities requires the knowledge of atomic physics describing the specific radiation from the plasma. Tomographic methods are applied but they need symmetries for the calculation of local parameters. Additionally in magnetic confined plasmas the interpretation might be more difficult due to the Zeeman splitting.