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BWXT employees trained as Nuclear Ambassadors
BWX Technologies has partnered with the American Nuclear Society to offer customized ANS Nuclear Ambassadors training to BWXT employees. The training kicked off in February with an initial two-hour virtual event that was presented to more than 60 BWXT employees, and it wrapped in April.
BWXT is the first company to participate in ANS’s newly revamped curriculum, which trains experts in K-12 learning.
N. Nishino et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 295-297
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11640
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The dependence of the resonance position of the central-ECH (c-ECH) on plasma behavior was investigated using a fast camera. When the resonance positions were higher, low frequency fluctuation of ~6kHz was observed and at the same time the diamagnetic signal decreased. Also, the same frequency fluctuation was observed in the potential signal by Au beam probe. On the other hand this low frequency fluctuation was not appeared when the resonance position was seemed to be on the axis of the plasma. These results indicate that the convective ExB drift instabilities may be induced due to the off-axis heating by c-ECH.