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Kathryn Huff stepping down from DOE Nuclear Energy post
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After serving two years as the Department of Energy’s assistant secretary for Nuclear Energy, Kathryn Huff will vacate that position on May 3 and return to teaching. Huff had started at the DOE in May 2021, serving for one year as the principal deputy assistant secretary for Nuclear Energy
“Serving in this capacity has been an unparalleled privilege, and I’m immensely grateful for the opportunity to have worked alongside you--the dedicated and talented public servants in Nuclear Energy, in DOE, and across the Biden-Harris Administration,” Huff wrote in an email announcement to colleagues last week. “I chose this timing to enable the smoothest transition back to my professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where my beloved research, students, husband, and dog await.”
Stanley M. Kaye, Masayuki Ono, Yueng-Kay Martin Peng, Donald B. Batchelor, Mark D. Carter, Wonho Choe, Robert Goldston, Yong-Seok Hwang, E. Fred Jaeger, Thomas R. Jarboe, Stephen Jardin, David Johnson, Robert Kaita, Charles Kessel, Henry Kugel, Rajesh Maingi, Richard Majeski, Janhardan Manickam, Jonathan Menard, David R. Mikkelsen, David J. Orvis, Brian A. Nelson, Franco Paoletti, Neil Pomphrey, Gregory Rewoldt, Steven Sabbagh, Dennis J. Strickler, Edmund Synakowski, James R. Wilson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 36 | Number 1 | July 1999 | Pages 16-37
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A88
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The mission of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) is to prove the principles of spherical torus physics by producing high-t plasmas that are noninductively sustained and whose current profiles are in steady state. The NSTX will be one of the first ultralow-aspect-ratio tori (R/a 1.3) to operate at high power (Pinput up to 11 MW) to produce high-t (25 to 40%), low-collisionality, high-bootstrap-fraction (70%) discharges. Both radio-frequency and neutral beam heating and current drive will be employed. Built into the NSTX is sufficient configurational flexibility to study a range of operating space and the resulting dependences of the confinement, micro- and magnetohydrodynamic stability, and particle- and power-handling properties. NSTX research will be carried out by a nationally based science team.
