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ANS seeks program evaluators for ABET accreditation
When ABET visits universities for accreditation purposes, it’s crucial that a qualified nuclear expert performs the assessment of that school’s nuclear engineering, radiological engineering, and/or health physics programs. The Accreditation Policies and Procedures Committee (APPC) of the American Nuclear Society works to ensure that a program evaluator (PEV) from the Society leads these ABET assessments.
A. Nikroo, J.M. Pontelandolfo, E.R. Castillo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 220-225
Technical Paper | Fourteenth Target Fabrication Specialists' Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A17903
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Targets for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) need to be about 200 μm thick and 2 mm in diameter. These dimensions are well beyond those currently fabricated on a routine basis. We have investigated fabrication of near NIF scale targets using the depolymerizable mandrel technique. Poly-alpha-methylstyrene (PAMS) mandrels, about 2 mm in diameter, of varying qualities were coated with as much as 125 μm of glow discharge polymer (GDP). The surface finish of the final shells was examined using a variety of techniques. A clear dependence of the modal spectrum of final GDP shell on the quality of the initial PAMS mandrels was observed. Isolated features were found to be the greatest cause for a shell not meeting the NIF standard.
