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This set of slides, intended for a presentation at a summer school, discusses the radiation effects of subatomic particles. It discusses single-event effects including types, indirect ionization, a cross-section, the range, angular effects, and concludes by providing Poisson examples.
This report contains a set of slides discussing JESD89A, specifically the revision of JESD89 from August 2001, intended for a presentation at a summer school at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). It discusses how tests are designed and the different types of tests implemented, including real time testing, alpha testing, fast neutron testing, and thermal neutron testing.
This report contains a set of slides intended for the 2019 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) radiation effects summer school. On the topic of the basic mechanisms of displacement damage, this presentation discusses the consequences, physical mechanisms, electrical degradation, modeling displacement damage, and current research.
This report contains a set of slides intended for the 2019 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) radiation effects summer school. On the topic of testing standards for displacement damage, this presentation discusses the purpose of tests, the test instruments used, pre-exposure and exposure procedures, and documentation requests and reports.
This report contains a set of slides intended for a summer school at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). On the topic of radiation effect on electronics, this presentation provides a brief overview of transistors and discusses Total Ionizing Dose (TID), Displacement Damage (DD) or Total Non-ionizing Dose (TNID), and Single-Event Effects (SEEs) in relation to radiation effects for satellites.
The invited presentation at School of Materials Science and Engineering took place during a collaboration visit to Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) on June 19, 2019.
The 2018 survey includes degrees granted for the academic years September 2016 – August 2017 and September 2017 – August 2018 and enrollments for fall 2018. Twenty-three health physics academic programs were surveyed with all 23 responding. Enrollments and degrees data were provided by 20 programs for 2017 and 19 for 2018. Four schools indicated their programs either had already or were in the process of phasing out—University of Missouri, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt. The enrollments and degrees data include students majoring in health physics or in an option program equivalent to a major. Enrollment information refers to fall term 2018. Some nuclear engineering programs have indicated that health physics option enrollments and degrees are also reported in the nuclear engineering survey.
The PRIMA-X (Performance Retargeting of Instrumentation, Measurement, and Analysis Technologies for Exascale Computing) project is the successor of the DOE PRIMA (Performance Refactoring of Instrumentation, Measurement, and Analysis Technologies for Petascale Computing) project, which addressed the challenge of creating a core measurement infrastructure that would serve as a common platform for both integrating leading parallel performance systems (notably TAU and Scalasca) and developing next-generation scalable performance tools. The PRIMA-X project shifts the focus away from refactorization of robust performance tools towards a re-targeting of the parallel performance measurement and analysis architecture for extreme scales. The massive concurrency, asynchronous execution dynamics, hardware heterogeneity, and multi-objective prerequisites (performance, power, resilience) that identify exascale systems introduce fundamental constraints on the ability to carry forward existing performance methodologies. In particular, there must be a deemphasis of per-thread observation techniques to significantly reduce the otherwise unsustainable flood of redundant performance data. Instead, it will be necessary to assimilate multi-level resource observations into macroscopic performance views, from which resilient performance metrics can be attributed to the computational features of the application. This requires a scalable framework for node-level and system-wide monitoring and runtime analyses of dynamic performance information. Also, the interest in optimizing parallelism parameters with respect to performance and energy drives the integration of tool capabilities in the exascale environment further. Initially, PRIMA-X was a collaborative project between the University of Oregon (lead institution) and the German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS). Because Prof. Wolf, the PI at GRS, accepted a position as full professor at Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) starting February 1st, 2015, the work of GRS was continued at TU Darmstadt. This report covers the work at TU Darmstadt after the transition. The first main accomplishment of TU Darmstadt is the development of different techniques to aggregate performance data on the level of threads. TU Darmstadt evaluated different schemes designed at GRS during the first phase of this project and integrated them into Score-P, a widely used performance measurement framework for HPC applications. The second main accomplishment is a substantial increase of Score-P’s scalability, achieved by improving its internal representation of the underlying system. Third, we extended our performance-modeling tool Extra-P to automatically create models with more than one input parameter (e.g., process count and input size), which was previously impossible. These models allow the performance behavior of an application to be extrapolated to larger machines. Specific applications of the new multi-parameter capability realized in this project include modeling the isoefficiency function of task-based applications and a novel co-design methodology. Further extensions of Extra-P comprise online modeling functionality, automatic refinement of the model search space, and segmented performance modeling. Further contributions include new locality metrics for both shared- and distributed-memory applications, a new way of measuring the impact of inter-application inference on the execution time of an application, and finally an automatic method that selects appropriate OpenMP constructs for the parallelization of sequential code and classifies the affected variables based on their sharing semantics.
LANL is required to utilize an air monitoring system at the LANL boundaries to ensure the safety of the public. This system constitutes the LANL Airnet Program compliance network and is a collection of air monitoring stations positioned in specific locations per Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulatory requirements. A number of these Airnet stations reside on property outside the LANL boundaries. For example, existing stations exist on Los Alamos County (County) property, Los Alamos Public School (LAPS) property, a local business and on private property. This Preliminary Real Estate Plan is required for the renewal of existing agreements to the County, the LAPS a local business and to a private property land owner for access to and operation of Airnet stations and associated infrastructure located on their property.
Lessons learned at radiation effects summer school, one of the main ones being, Whoever prepared the setup should perform the experiment. Or be available during the experiment.
This is the 2019 LANL Radiation Effects Summer School.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO), in partnership with the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), invited high school and university (undergraduate and graduate) teams to explore the future of geothermal energy and visualize the world of geothermal energy by participating in the 2019 Geothermal Design Challenge™. Teams of 2 or 3 members researched data, interpreted information and created a data visualization portfolio that told a compelling story about geothermal energy by answering the challenge question, “Where do you target your next production well to maximize geothermal reservoir performance?” The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of how the 2019 Geothermal Design Challenge™ was organized and conducted.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO), in partnership with the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), invited high school and university (undergraduate and graduate) teams to explore the future of geothermal energy and visualize the world of geothermal energy by participating in the 2019 Geothermal Design Challenge™. Teams of 2 or 3 members researched data, interpreted information and created a data visualization portfolio that told a compelling story about geothermal energy by answering the challenge question, “Where do you target your next production well to maximize geothermal reservoir performance?” The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of how the 2019 Geothermal Design Challenge™ was organized and conducted.
This set of slides contains the end of summer Robert G. Keepin Nuclear Nonproliferation summer school lightning presentations of Roberto Rico, Rene Sanchez. This research focused on 15 configurations that used highly enriched uranium to conduct new critical experiments. These experiments focused on the intermediate energy (0.625 eV -100 keV) range and that could easily be modified using various high priority materials. These experiments are referred to as (TEX) and were conducted using Comet a vertical lift machine used to separate a critical assembly into halves. The upper half is stationary and lower is raised until contact. 15 different configurations were run and achieved similar or close results to Livermore calculations and enabled comparisons of Keff of both results. Future work includes de-stacking each configuration to see results of minimizing mass on Keff.
The commercial rooftop solar energy market remains an under-developed sector. The market is estimated to contain 150 gigawatts of potential in the U.S. but it faces significant barriers to deployment to meet that potential, with an estimated 1.4 GW developed through 2017. This analysis focuses on of over 30,000 solar systems installed through 2017 and the properties on which they are located. The sample represents greater than 60% of the installed market at that time. The properties covered 20 states and almost 30 different types including industrial, warehouse, school/university, office, retail, and municipal/government and were compared to more than 2.4 million non-solar properties in the same geographies. The analysis finds overall commercial rooftop PV penetrations have only surpassed 1% recently across all property types with education properties (schools and universities) leading at over 6% penetration and with NJ and CA seeing the highest overall penetrations close to 2.5%. Also revealed were characteristics of those buildings, owners, and tenants and how solar penetrations change as those characteristics change. The research found clearly higher penetrations on owner-occupied larger (~9000 ft 2 ) buildings with fewer tenants indicating, potentially, areas for future customer acquisition for PV developers. Also investigated were differences of solar system characteristics on commercial buildings such as system installed prices, size, and percentages of third-party owned (TPO) systems. The research found a steady and substantial drop in installed prices over time, a drop in the percentage of TPO systems being installed, and a relatively steady trend of system size. This latter finding indicates that smaller systems remain difficult to develop.
The University of Delaware (UD), and their industrial partners, have carried out testing, documentation, and standards development at ESIF. These activities are intended to help meet the objective of NREL's INTEGRATE program, to enable clean energy technologies to increase the hosting capacity of the grid, by providing grid services in a holistic manner using an open source, interoperable platform. In particular, the 'Open V2X at ESIF' project worked to facilitate standardization and interoperability for Electric Vehicle technologies, including battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles (hence EV) to provide grid services. This was done by interconnecting and testing EV and EVSE (charging station) hardware from different manufacturers, by developing standards and test protocols for standards, and by documenting new protocols to be proposed as standards. Contractor-supplied equipment used in the testing included Vehicle Smart Links (VSLs) installed in an EV and School Bus, single-phase and three-phase charging stations, and an optimizing aggregator (software running on a server, hence just 'Aggregator'). The Aggregator software was developed by U of Delaware and is now licensed to Nuvve Corp for commercial development, and licensed to NRG/EVgo for demonstrations. The Aggregator monitors capacity and operations of the EVs and EVSEs, dispatches them in response to requests, and reports their operations and metered power flow. In operation, as vehicles move, plug-in and unplug, the aggregator tracks the total capacity available within a defined jurisdiction or RTO (Regional Transmission Organization, synonym for ISO or TSO), and dispatches part or all of that capacity based on market or direct dispatch signals from a grid entity. The VSL is the data acquisition and control module in the resource itself (EVSE or EV), with rich communication between a single Optimizing Aggregator and many VSL (one in each resource). All requests and dispatch events are also logged by the aggregator to make the provision of grid power auditable. For these tests, the dispatch was typically a recorded signal, the VSL was in the EV or EVSE, and the recording of experimental performance was often carried out by the normal logging functions of the aggregator.
A new approach was developed for the calculation of homoclinic tangles of the primary unperturbed separatrix in divertor tokamaks. This new approach is different than calculating tangles by following single trajectories in phase space [M. V. Berry, Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics (Ed. S. Jorna), Am. Inst. Phys. Conf. Proc. 46, 16-120 (1978)] or calculating the trajectories asymptotically in canonical time [R. K. W. Roeder, B. I. Rapoport, and T. E. Evans, Phys. Plasmas 10, 3796 (2003)]. The approach is to consider an equilibrium manifold as a whole and to calculate how the entire manifold evolves in phase space in time under the influence of perturbations. When the forward moving and the backward moving manifolds meet in a poloidal plane and intersect, they form tangles to preserve the topological invariance of the Hamiltonian system. This approach was applied to the DIII-D tokamak. The low mn, the high mn, the peeling-ballooning modes, and topological noise and field error perturbations were considered. The results of the peeling-ballooning modes were analyzed. It was found that the perturbations create very complicated structures in phase space [A. Punjabi and A. Boozer, Phys. Lett A 378, 2410-2416 (2014); A. Punjabi, Phys. Plasmas 21, 122516 (2014)]. The structure of tangles gives a possible cause for generation of radial electric fields in divertor tokamaks, and the possible consequent drifts, currents, shears, and curvature effects from the resulting complicated electric fields can possibly indicate a path to L to H mode transition [F. Wagner F et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 1408 (1982)] in divertor tokamaks. During the present period, four (4) refereed paper were published; six (6) contributed papers were presented at the EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and published in the EPS conference proceedings; six (6) contributed poster papers, co-authored with HU undergraduate students, were presented at APS/DPP Annual Meetings; three contributed papers were presented at HU School of Science Annual Research Symposia; four (4) invited talks were given; one talk, co-authored by Dr. Allen Boozer and the PI, was given by Dr. Boozer at the 20th International Stellarator-Heliotron Workshop 2015, in Greifswald, Germany; and four (4) graduate students and nine (9) undergraduate students were mentored and provided research experience in fusion science. For the renewal period, it is planned to work on four (4) new problems. These are: Homoclinic tangles of the separatrices of the DIII-D and the simple map, magnetic topology and homoclinic tangles of separatrices in divertor tokamaks, resonant stellarator divertors, and nonresonant stellarator divertors.
We have been having ongoing discussions about the analysis and the text of the 95 Zr manuscript with our collaborators at Texas A&M University (TAMU). K. Kolos has travelled to Texas to discuss, once again, some details of our GEANT4 simulation used to determine the gas-counter efficiency. In that process, we discovered that there was a slight disagreement (~0.5%) between our results and the results obtained with the EGS code used by the TAMU group. We are currently working to determine and magnitude and source of the discrepancy. This has taken a considerable amount of time and, unfortunately, has hindered us from sending out the paper to all of our collaborators. We also recently found out that Benjamin Schroeder, the Texas A&M student supported by the CENTUAR Center of Excellence who joined our project earlier this year, has decided to leave graduate school after obtaining his Master Thesis. Although this is a loss for our team, we do not foresee this to cause a major disruption in the project. Our TAMU collaborators are still committed to the success of these measurements.