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Fusion research tackles fuel and instrumentation challenges
Three research groups are reporting fusion-related developments, including ongoing work toward spin-polarized fusion, a new plasma diagnostic tool heading to the National Ignition Facility, and a materials science project that could impact the design of inertial confinement fusion fuel targets.
Nicolas Shugart, Jeffrey King
Nuclear Technology | Volume 199 | Number 2 | August 2017 | Pages 129-150
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2017.1334435
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
SafeGuards Analysis (SGA) is a computational toolbox able to simulate different safeguards scenarios across a number of different fuel cycles and at many different scales within the MATLAB Simulink framework. SGA functions by simulating Material Balance Areas (MBAs) under safeguards materials control and accountability and allows the user to define the uncertainty parameters of the associated flow and inventory measurements. The simulated safeguard system uses the uncertain measurement estimates to calculate a mass-balance across the MBA. This mass balance is then evaluated by one of a number of different statistical tests to determine if a significant amount of material has been removed from the MBA. This paper describes the design of SGA, the results of testing each element of the toolbox, and a number of single MBA example scenarios. In all of the test cases, SGA performed as expected and produced acceptable results from the single MBA scenario.