05 Nuclear fuels (economics, policy, supplies, forecasts)

a multi-attribute utility function, based on value judgments provided by a group of technical researchers, policy analysts, faculties, and government officers. The implications of the results are also discussed. The study found that the work and results of this investigation can provide valuable insights and decision opportunities for virtually all major decision-making in assessment of the national nuclear energy R&D projects in Korea.

05•00117 Identifying and training non-technical skills of nuclear emergency response teams Crichton, M. T. and Flin, R. Annals o['Nuclear Energy, 2004, 31, (12), 1317 1330. Training of the non-technical (social and cognitive) skills that are crucial to safe and effective management by teams in emergency situations is an issue that is receiving increasing emphasis in many organizations, particularly in the nuclear power industry. As teams play a major role in emergency response organizations (ERO), effective functioning and interactions within, between and across teams is crucial, particularly as the management of an emergency situation often requires that teams are extended by members from various other sections and strategic groups throughout the company, as well as members of external agencies. A series of interviews was recently conducted with members of a UK nuclear emergency response organization to identify the non-technical skills required by team members that would be required for managing an emergency. Critical skills have been identified as decision making and situation assessment, as well as communication, teamwork, and stress management. A number of training strategies are discussed which can be tailored to the roles and responsibilities of the team members and the team leader, based on the roles within the team being defined as either Decision Maker, Evaluator, or Implementor, according to Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) classifications. It is anticipated that enhanced learning of the necessary non-technical skills, through experience and directed practice, will improve the skills of members of emergency response teams.

05100118 Performance of the SNAP model in an ENSEMBLE exercise of simulating real-time dispersion from a nuclear accident Bartnicki, J. et al. International Journal o/ Environment and Pollution, 2003, 20, (1-6), 22 32. A real-time dispersion model SNAP (Severe Nuclear Accident Program) has been developed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute to simulated long-range atmospheric transport of the radioactive debris released during nuclear accidents. This model is the most important tool for meteorologist on duty responsible for preparation of the real-time forecast of the dispersion. The forecast is then used by the National Crisis Committee in Norway responsible for management of the crisis situation in case of a nuclear accident. The question then naturally arises, 'What is the uncertainty of dispersion model forecasts?' To get a measure of the inherent model uncertainty in such forecasts, National Meteorological Services (NMS) in Europe have joined their resources together in the EU-project 'ENSEMBLE'. The project is strictly internet oriented and its main aim is to develop a new internet based decision support system for operational use by the national decision markers - in real accidents. Selected results from one of the project exercises, seen from Norwegian perspective, are presented here.

05100119 Real-time data acquisition and processing platform for fusion experiments Ruiz, M. et al. Fusion Engineering and Design, 2004, 71, (1-4), 135 140. This paper describes the features of the hardware and low-level software of the PXI real-time data acquisition and processing system developed for the TJ-II device located in the Centro de Investigaciones Energ6ticas Medioambientales y Tecnol6gicas (CIEMAT) in Madrid. This system fulfils three objectives: (1) to increase processing capabilities of standard data acquisition systems by adding specific processing cards, (2) to acquire and process data in real time with a view to deployment on steady state fusion devices, and (3) to develop the data acquisition and processing applications using graphical languages like LabView.

05100120 Remote computing using the National Fusion Grid Burruss, J. R. et al. Fusion Engineering and Design, 2004, 71, (1 4), 251-255. The National Fusion Collaboratory (http://www.fusiongrid.org) uses grid technology to implement remote computing on the National Fusion Grid. The motivations are to reduce the cost of computing

resources, shorten the software deployment cycle, and simplify remote computing for the user community. The National Fusion Collaboratory has successfully demonstrated remote access as a grid service to the TRANSP transport analysis code for tokamak experiments. TRANSP development and administration are now centralized at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), obviating both the need to port TRANSP to different platforms and the process of deploying TRANSP to remote sites. TRANSP users now share the resources of a powerful Linux cluster located at PPPL. Fusion researchers have completed over 900 TRANSP runs utilizing over 5600 h of CPU time since the TRANSP service was installed in October 2002.

05100121 Replacement strategy for ASDEX upgrade's new control and data acquisition Raupp, G. et al. Fusion Engineering and Design, 2004, 71, (1 4), 41-45. ASDEX Upgrade is being equipped with a new real-time plasma control and data acquisition system and a novel time system. Major components were implemented and installed. While much work for performance optimization and application programming remains to be done, commissioning of the new system parallel to experiment operation is being prepared. Commissioning of the new system will be done step-by-step. To facilitate testing the old and new control systems share all input signals. Switching between old and new system can be performed within 60 min: 23 fibre optics for output of actuator commands and input triggers must be connected to the active system and minor modifications done to interface the machine protection. Commissioning phases include background listening, technical dis- charges and full plasma operation. With the strategy chosen risk to the machine was minimized and interference with ongoing experiment campaigns reduced.

05/00122 Simulation platform for remote participants in fusion experiments Barrera, E. et al. Fusion Engineering and Design, 2004, 71, (1 4), 269- 274. One of the major challenges in remote participation in fusion experiments is the control from remote locations of the data acquisition and treatment process. In an optimum situation, the remote researcher should be able to control the data acquisition configuration parameters, and data processing, specifying the results that must be returned to him. The simulation platform presented here, allows the researcher to develop and test complex algorithms in a high- level graphical language (LabVIEW), which includes powerful data processing libraries. These algorithms will be downloaded later into the data acquisition system. Furthermore, the platform allows the simulation of hardware data acquisition, which include the following points: (a) simulation of channel configuration from one or several data acquisition cards (channels used, sample frequencies, etc.), (b) generation of buffered simulated data (it is also possible the use of raw data, acquired in previous experiments, as simulated data), and (c) reproduction of hardware behaviour (except, of course, in terms of real-time behaviour and real data). For this purpose, virtual instru- ments (VIs) libraries written in LabVIEW will be provided to the remote developers. These VIs will be replaced later, in the data acquisition system, by their homologous Vls that actually interface with the hardware. This facility will allow remote researchers to verify the correct behaviour of their own data processing algorithms before downloading them into the data acquisition system.

05100123 Trust as a central paradigm for advisory science: the case of the Belgian nuclear phase-out Laes, E. et al. International Journal g[" Sustainable Development, 2004, 7, (1), 1-26. The Belgian parliament has decided to phase out the existing nuclear power plants as part of the government's strategy to achieve sustainable development. According to the authors, this nuclear phase-out can be regarded as belonging to a class of unstructured problems in science for policy-making, i.e. problems where there exists a debate on the scientific facts as well as on the values at stake. When society is confronted with unstructured problems, iiasights from recent risk research literature point at the overriding importance of trust in arrangements at the cutting edge of science and policy. The study investigated the Belgian science-policy interface from the point of view of trust building, also guided by insights from interviews with members of the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development. The results were analysed on three levels of discourse: the cognitive, the reflective and the design or planning discourse. On each level, flaws in the trust-building fabric could be demonstrated.

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