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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Aaron T. Aoyama, Mohamad Dagher, Russell Feder, Michael Duco, Mahmoud Youssef
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 830-834
Computational Tools, Modeling & Validation | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12489
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Neutron transport modeling of the ITER reactor structure including modeling the impact of potential neutron streaming along the divertor cassette requires a detailed 3-D CAD solid model of the ITER sector. An all-inclusive, full-scale CAD geometry model of a 40 degree section of the ITER reactor structure was developed for analytical use with the ATTILATM radiation transport code. The source geometry and model used was the reference 1/10th scale A-LITE 3 model provided by the ITER Project Office for radiation transport calculations. Model upscaling, examination, CAD-based cleanup and modifications were performed on each component using the commercial CAD software, SolidWorks. Based on the modified components a new full scale solid model of the ITER section including divertor cassettes was developed in order to ease the implementation of additional diagnostic components being designed by various parties.Geometry repair and modification operations were performed with the goal of obtaining a Parasolid model that would successfully import into and mesh in ATTILA. Many components were re-modeled in order to avoid faulty geometry entities that were identified after the scaling to full-size. This paper will discuss the development of this A-LITE CAD model, and its meshing in ATTILA.