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Ontario eyes new nuclear development
A 1,300-acre site left undeveloped on the shores of Lake Ontario four decades ago could see new life as the home to a large nuclear facility.
M. Salewski, M. Nocente, A. S. Jacobsen, F. Binda, C. Cazzaniga, J. Eriksson, B. Geiger, G. Gorini, C. Hellesen, V. G. Kiptily, T. Koskela, S. B. Korsholm, T. Kurki-Suonio, F. Leipold, D. Moseev, S. K. Nielsen, J. Rasmussen, P. A. Schneider, S. E. Sharapov, M. Stejner, M. Tardocchi, JET Contributors, ASDEX Upgrade Team, EUROfusion MST1 Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 74 | Number 1 | July-August 2018 | Pages 23-36
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1380482
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Bayesian integrated data analysis combines measurements from different diagnostics to jointly measure plasma parameters of interest such as temperatures, densities, and drift velocities. Integrated data analysis of fast-ion measurements has long been hampered by the complexity of the strongly non-Maxwellian fast-ion distribution functions. This has recently been overcome by velocity-space tomography. In this method two-dimensional images of the velocity distribution functions consisting of a few hundreds or thousands of pixels are reconstructed using the available fast-ion measurements. Here we present an overview and current status of this emerging technique at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak and the JET toamak based on fast-ion D-alpha spectroscopy, collective Thomson scattering, gamma-ray and neutron emission spectrometry, and neutral particle analyzers. We discuss Tikhonov regularization within the Bayesian framework. The implementation for different types of diagnostics as well as the uncertainties are discussed, and we highlight the importance of integrated data analysis of all available detectors.