Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia: The ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony

© 2016 Southseries Inc., www.thirdworldquarterly.com. Regional and hemispheric reconfigurations in Latin America and the Caribbean are increasingly mediated by Brazilian power, and the engagement of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana with this emerging context is intriguing. They are tentatively moving away from a Caribbean region with which they are culturally contiguous, towards a South American continent in which they are geographically located. This is partly a reflection of the gradual opening up of the Northern Amazonian space that they share collectively, and also with Venezuela and Brazil. These processes are occurring as cause and effect of Brazil’s emergence as a regional–and even regionally hegemonic–power. With reference to wider debates on regionalism and hegemony, we analyse the uncertain consequences of these shifts

Overview of the development of neutronics instrumentation for the EU ITER TBM at KIT

International audienceTest Blanket Modules (TBM) will be installed in ITER with the aim to investigate the nuclear performance of different breeding blanket concepts. As partner of the European Consortium on Nuclear Data and Measurement Techniques in the framework of several F4E specific grants and contracts, KIT and ENEA have investigated ways to integrate neutron flux detectors into the TBM considering in particular mechanical restrictions and the harsh environment of the TBM. In the frame of ongoing research, several candidate neutron flux measurement techniques are investigated for their suitability to and operability under the harsh environment conditions in the TBM. The work at KIT focusses on a neutron activation system, self-powered detectors and silicon carbide detectors