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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nuclear News 40 under 40: The wait is over
Following the enthusiastic response from the nuclear community in 2024 for the inaugural NN 40 under 40, the Nuclear News team knew we had to take up the difficult task in 2025 of turning it into a recurring annual issue—though there was plenty of uncertainty as to how the community would receive a second iteration this year. That uncertainty was unfounded, clearly, as the tight-knit nuclear community embraced the chance to celebrate the up-and-coming generation of scientists, engineers, and policy makers who are working to grow the influence of this oft misunderstood technology.
N. Vetcha, S. Smolentsev, M. Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 518-522
Blanket Design and Experiments | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST60-518
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An approach developed in earlier work to study the hydrodynamic stability of the buoyancy assisted flow in DCLL blanket based on the solution of the Orr-Sommefeld equation for MHD flows is used here to address the stability of the buoyancy-opposed (downward) flows in the DCLL blanket conditions. The present analysis predicts that downward flows in DCLL blanket conditions will likely be hydrodynamically unstable and eventually turbulent due to the development of either inflectional instability or boundary layer instability.
