The NUMEN (NUclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless double beta decay) project was recently proposed with the aim to investigate the nuclear response to Double Charge Exchange reactions for all the isotopes explored by present and future studies of 0νββ decay. The expected level of radiation in the NUMEN experiment imposes severe limitations on the average lifetime of the electronic devices. During the experiments, it is expected that the electronic devices will be exposed to about 105 neutrons/cm2/s according to FLUKA simulations. This paper investigates the reliability of a System On Module (SOM) under neutron radiation. The tests were performed using thermal, epithermal, and fast neutrons produced by the Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares 4.5 MW Nuclear Research Reactor. The results show that the National Instruments SOM is robust to neutron radiation for the proposed applications in the NUMEN project.This paper presents an investigation of the temperature dependence characteristics specific to cryogenic planar Multi-Layer Inductors (MLIs). This paper establishes that the inductance of a planar MLI at a specific frequency varies with temperature when the sensor is cooled down to 4.2 K while providing a detailed analysis of various possible factors that might contribute to the variation in the sensor performance, such as the thermal deformation and the variation in the properties of sensor materials, using a combination of experiments and simulations. By calculating the interlayer capacitance, we have attempted to adopt a novel approach in the investigation of the effects of thermal deformation on the sensor. In order to arrive at that, the relative permittivity of the base material (G10CR-FR4) at cryogenic temperatures was obtained through experiments. The ANSYS static structural package was used for modeling thermally induced deformations, after which the deformed capacitance and inductance were obtained using Ansoft MAXWELL. From the analysis, we have concluded that the variation in the inductance of the sensor has a direct correlation with the electrical resistivity (hence the residual resistivity ratio) of the coil material. The number of inductor layers and the area of the component layer will also determine the temperature dependence phenomenon. These conclusions are not obvious from the established inductance models.The aim of traditional designs of pulsed magnets is to keep the von-Mises stress on the midplane less than the ultimate tensile strength of materials. However, recently failed high-field experiments showed that some short circuits occurred at the magnet end, which is most possibly caused by the axial displacement of wires. This indicates that the former design is inadequate and accurate axial mechanical analysis of magnets is necessary. In this paper, a finite element model of pulsed magnets considering interface characteristics is proposed. Both the contact status and interfacial friction between the conductor layers and reinforcements can be accounted for Simulations are conducted with a failed 95 T dual-coil prototype, which was originally designed with the self-developed Pulsed Magnet Design Software (PMDS) software. The simulation results show that all the originally expected separations calculated by the PMDS software disappear due to the compression. This makes the calculated maximal von-Mises stress of the inner four reinforcement layers about 600 MPa less than the former designs. The influence of the interfacial friction is also presented. Besides, the simulations show that the maximum axial displacement at the magnet end is up to 8 mm at the designed peak field, which is deadly to the insulations. Hence, we suggest that the axial displacement at the magnet end should also be one design objective of pulsed magnets. At last, the factors affecting the axial displacement are analyzed.With the arrival of megajoule class laser facilities, the features of laser-produced plasmas are evolving toward unprecedented high electron temperatures reached in the environment of a cm-scale indirect-drive Hohlraum for a few tens of nanoseconds. In this context, the need for in situ experimental characterization of the plasma parameters becomes critical in order to test hydrodynamics simulations in these novel conditions. Taking advantage of the progress achieved in the last 40 years, Thomson scattering has become a classic diagnostic in the characterization of laser produced plasmas. However, the many beam configuration of the megajoule scale experiments makes the measurements increasingly complex because the Thomson scattering signals produced by the 351 nm heaters themselves dominate the plasma emission around 263 nm, a wavelength range typically of interest when a 4ω Thomson probe is used. This paper reviews the requirements for and the potential of a 4ω Thomson scattering system to be operated on such 351 nm megajoule scale facilities in order to characterize the hot (Te > 3 keV) plasmas produced in the indirect-drive irradiation of a Hohlraum. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/alc-0159.html It is found that the configuration of the diagnostic could be optimized in order to enable the detection of the ion acoustic resonances over a large domain of plasma parameters. The results for the electron plasma wave resonances are also given.To facilitate the development of molten salt reactor technologies, a fundamental understanding of the physical and chemical properties of molten salts under the combined conditions of high temperature and intense radiation fields is necessary. Optical spectroscopic (UV-Vis-near IR) and electrochemical techniques are powerful analytical tools to probe molecular structure, speciation, thermodynamics, and kinetics of solution dynamics. Here, we report the design and fabrication of three custom-made apparatus (i) a multi-port spectroelectrochemical furnace equipped with optical spectroscopic and electrochemical instrumentation, (ii) a high-temperature cell holder for time-resolved optical detection of radiolytic transients in molten salts, and (iii) a miniaturized spectroscopy furnace for the investigation of steady-state electron beam effects on molten salt speciation and composition by optical spectroscopy. Initial results obtained with the spectroelectrochemical furnace (i) and high-temperature cell holder (ii) are reported.