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DOE approves Xcimer’s laser fusion power plant design
The Department of Energy has approved Xcimer Energy's Athena fusion power plant preconceptual technical design. With this milestone achieved, the Denver, Colo.-based company is now moving forward with its plans to develop economical laser inertial confinement fusion using two beamlines, gas laser technology, and a molten salt fusion chamber.
The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory demonstrated net energy gain from inertial confinement fusion in 2022 using solid-state glass lasers and 192 beamlines.
Executive Session|Panel
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|8:00–9:45AM EST|Crystal B
Session Organizer:
Uchenna Ezibe (ANS Senior Manager of STEM Programs)
How and why are young people engaging with and entering the nuclear industry? What motivates the next generation of nuclear professionals to consider the field in the first place, and how can they be supported in their efforts? Join the high school students leading ANS’s newest nuclear science program, as well as representatives from the ANS Student Sections Committee, the ANS Young Members Group, and the ANS Education, Training, and Workforce Development Division, to learn about the motivations and needs of the nuclear workforce of tomorrow.
Ishita Trivedi
NC State Univ.
John Mobley, IV
Graduate Student Research Assistant, Engineering Education, Univ. Michigan / ANS Student Sections Committee Categorization Chair
Prisha Sinha
High School Senior, Co-Chair of the ANS Accelerators Program
Rex Riedel
High School Sophomore, Co-Chair of the ANS Accelerators Program
Lillian Merrill
Lisa Marshall
NCSU
Uchenna Ezibe
ANS Senior Manager of STEM Programs
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