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Applications are now open for the fall 2025 testing period for the American Nuclear Society’s Certified Nuclear Professional (CNP) exam. Applications are being accepted through October 14, and only three testing sessions are offered per year, so it is important to apply soon. The test will be administered from November 12 through December 16. To check eligibility and schedule your exam, click here.
In addition, taking place tomorrow (September 19) from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (CDT), ANS will host a new webinar, “How to Become a Certified Nuclear Professional.” More information is available below in this article.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 491-495
Plasma Engineering - Fueling and Diagnostics | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST60-491
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The JT-60 operations were stopped in 2008 in order to be upgraded to a superconducting tokamak device, JT-60 Super Advanced (JT-60SA). The design activity of JT-60SA is going on under the ITER-BA project, and the discussion on the operational scenarios of JT-60SA has begun. On the basis of these situations, we have been on a developmental work for JT-60SA control system.The JT-60 real time control system is composed of a workstation and a VME-based real time controller using a VxWorks. The VxWorks is one of the most commonly used real-time OSs in the embedded system markets. However, the introduction cost is higher than that of other RTOSs.From a cost-effectiveness and a long-term stable supply viewpoint, we have chosen INtime running on Windows OS-based Personal Computer. INtime is able to add a real-time performance to a PC on which Windows is installed. Therefore, in JT-60 real time control system, some of the subsystems running on VxWorks have been replaced with a PC-based control system. In future development activity, we plan to adopt the PC-based controller with INtime as the standard of JT-60SA control system. In this report, the developmental status of JT-60SA control system will be described.
