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ORAU, ANS, others to host workshops on nuclear academic programs
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), in partnership with the American Nuclear Society, the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the Institute for Nuclear Power Operators, has announced it will host an online workshop called “Shaping the Future of Nuclear Academic Programs.” The 90-minute program is designed for university department heads and faculty interested in enhancing nuclear science and technology programs through best practices.
David A. Petti, Kathryn A. McCarthy
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 390-396
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963645
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project includes a vigorous safety design and assessment activity to demonstrate the safety potential of ITER and to demonstrate that it can be sited in any of the sponsoring Parties with a minimum of site-specific redesign. The scope and depth of the ITER Engineering Design Activities (EDA) safety effort was unprecedented for fusion. In this paper, we discuss a number of lessons that have been learned during the safety effort of the ITER EDA and their implications for fusion in the longer term.