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Princeton-led team develops AI for fusion plasma monitoring
A new AI software tool for monitoring and controlling the plasma inside nuclear fuel systems has been developed by an international collaboration of scientists from Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Chung-Ang University, Columbia University, and Seoul National University. The software, which the researchers call Diag2Diag, is described in the paper, “Multimodal super-resolution: discovering hidden physics and its application to fusion plasmas,” published in Nature Communications.
Mujid S. Kazimi, John C. Chen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 17-27
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27122
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An analytical and experimental investigation of void distribution in internally heated boiling pools is presented. The experimental investigation involved measurement of the vertical profile of the void fraction and the average void fraction in an aqueous solution of ZnSO4. The observed void fractions were found to be adequately correlated by If the results of this investigation are extended to a boiling pool of UO2, it is predicted that substantial voiding will occur even when only a very small fraction of nominal operating power density in nuclear reactors is consumed in internal vaporization.
