Adanced Recovery and Integrated Extraction System (ARIES). Preconceptual design report

This document describes the preliminary conceptual design of the Advanced Recovery and Integrated Extraction System (ARIES). The ARIES is an overall processing system for the dismantlement of nuclear weapon primaries. The program will demonstrate dismantlement of nuclear weapons and retrieval of the plutonium into a form that is compatible with long-term storage and that is inspectable in an unclassified form appropriate for the application of traditional international safeguards. The purpose of the ARIES process is to receive weapon pits, disassemble them, and provide a product of either a plutonium metal button or plutonium oxide powder appropriately canned to meet all requirements for long-term storage. This demonstration is a 24-month program, with full operation planned during the last three-six months to gain confidence in the system`s flexibility and reliability. The ARIES system is modular in design to offer credible scaling and the ability to incorporate modifications or new concepts. This report describes the preconceptual design of each of the ARIES modules, as well as the integration of the overall system

A Framework for Modeling DNA Based Molecular Systems

Abstract. In this paper, we propose a framework for a discrete event simulator for simulating the DNA based nano-robotical systems. We describe a physical model that captures the conformational changes of the solute molecules. We also present methods to simulate various chemical reactions due to the molecular collisions, including hybridization, dehybridization and strand displacement. The feasibility of such a framework is demonstrated by some preliminary results. 1 Introduction and Related Work Recent research has explored DNA as a material for self-assembly of nanoscale object