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Education, Training & Workforce Development
The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
Meeting Spotlight
International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Two updated standards on criticality safety published
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently approved two new American Nuclear Society standards covering different aspects of nuclear criticality safety (NCS).
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Larry Baylor (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
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Automatic Inference and Control of Field Reversed Configuration Plasmas in C-2W
Jesus A. Romero (TAE Technologies), Kevin Phung (TAE Technologies), Colin Finucane (TAE Technologies), Sergei Galkin (TAE Technologies), Deepak Gupta (TAE Technologies), Marcel Nations (TAE Technologies), Kan Zhai (TAE Technologies), Roger Smith (TAE Technologies), Roberto Mendoza (TAE Technologies), Nathan Bolte (TAE Technologies), Tommy Roche (TAE Technologies), Erik Trask (TAE Technologies), Sergei Putvinski (TAE Technologies)
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First High-Power Results from the DIII-D Helicon System
Bart Van Compernolle (General Atomics), M. W. Brookman (General Atomics), R. I. Pinsker (General Atomics), C. P. Moeller (General Atomics), J. P. Squire (General Atomics), A. M. Garofalo (General Atomics), A. Nagy (PPPL), S. Chowdhury (Univ. California, Los Angeles), N. A. Crocker (Univ. California, Los Angeles), G. DeGrandchamp (UCI), E. Hinson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), A. Marinoni (MIT), E. H. Martin (ORNL), C. C. Petty (General Atomics), M. Porkolab (MIT), C. Rost (MIT), O. Schmitz (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), J. Watkins (Sandia)
Wave Coupling and Propagation from the Helicon Antenna in LAPD
Joshua J. Larson (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Bart V. Compernolle (General Atomics), Robert I. Pinsker (General Atomics), Troy A. Carter (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Insulating Antenna Enclosures for RF Sheath Mitigation
Gurleen Bal (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Bart V. Compernolle (General Atomics), Pat Pribyl (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Josh Larson (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Troy Carter (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Initial Commissioning Test Results of the Wendelstein 7-X Continuous Pellet Fueling System
Steven Meitner (ORNL), Larry Baylor (ORNL)
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