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ARPA-E announces $40 million to develop transmutation technologies for UNF
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced $40 million in funding to develop cutting-edge technologies to enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel into less-radioactive substances. According to ARPA-E, the new initiative addresses one of the agency’s core goals as outlined by Congress: to provide transformative solutions to improve the management, cleanup, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.
Andreas Dinklage, Rainer Fischer, Robert Wolf
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 3 | November 2012 | Pages 419-427
Selected Paper from Seventh Fusion Data Validation Workshop 2012 (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A15341
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new concept for the design of diagnostics for fusion devices is introduced. The concept is based on the combination of sets of different diagnostics to an integrated meta-diagnostic. The approach applies methods from Bayesian experimental design and allows for quantitative assessments of differing meta-diagnostics. A specific example is the combination of interferometry and Thomson scattering data to determine the capabilities of the proposed method. The approach also determines the minimum sets of diagnostics required to determine physics quantities with a given accuracy. This is relevant for the control of reactor-relevant scenarios such as with DEMO.