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ANS continues to expand its certificate offerings
It’s almost been a full year since the American Nuclear Society held its inaugural section of Nuclear 101, a comprehensive certificate course on the basics of the nuclear field. Offered at the 2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo, that first sold-out course marked a massive milestone in the Society’s expanding work in professional development and certification.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1454-1459
Blanket Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39971
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A “fusion plate” is designed for use with the Texas A&M University TRIGA reactor. The plate would contain 6LiD and could produce 14 MeV neutrons through thermal neutron induced 6Li(n,∝)3T reaction and subsequent T-D fusion as the tritons slow down. The results are based on the source produced from a plate 60 × 60 cm, containing 324 grams of 6LiD, which is placed in a thermal flux of 2×1012 n/cm2-s. The total neutron production from the T-D reaction and other significant reactions is 1.5×1012 neutrons/sec. The spectra resembles that from a 400 KeV plasma.
