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NC State celebrates 70 years of nuclear engineering education
An early picture of the research reactor building on the North Carolina State University campus. The Department of Nuclear Engineering is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its nuclear engineering curriculum in 2020–2021. Photo: North Carolina State University
The Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University has spent the 2020–2021 academic year celebrating the 70th anniversary of its becoming the first U.S. university to establish a nuclear engineering curriculum. It started in 1950, when Clifford Beck, then of Oak Ridge, Tenn., obtained support from NC State’s dean of engineering, Harold Lampe, to build the nation’s first university nuclear reactor and, in conjunction, establish an educational curriculum dedicated to nuclear engineering.
The department, host to the 2021 ANS Virtual Student Conference, scheduled for April 8–10, now features 23 tenure/tenure-track faculty and three research faculty members. “What a journey for the first nuclear engineering curriculum in the nation,” said Kostadin Ivanov, professor and department head.
Tetsuya Nishi, Kei Yoneda, Kai Masuda, Kiyoshi Yoshikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 4 | November 2007 | Pages 1061-1065
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering and Diagnostics | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1636
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A 21S metastable helium atomic beam injector was studied for a beam probe of electric field diagnoses, which is applicable to high electric potential region in Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion (IECF) plasmas where a solid probe can hardly be utilized. With deuterium background gas (~0.1Pa) which is the minimum operation pressure of the IECF devices, the beam density was found to decrease ten times lower than beam density without background gas because of collisional effect. Also, plasma parameters in a-magnetron-discharge-based exciter were evaluated by means of Langmuir probe and emission spectroscopy. These results strongly imply a high excitation rate of ~10-4 into 21S metastable state.
