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Ted Garrish faces Senate committee for DOE nuclear post
A veteran nuclear leader with more than four decades of experience testified before a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday as part of the nomination process to become the next NE-1, the Department of Energy’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy.
Theodore “Ted” Garrish appeared before the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources to answer questions about how he would approach the position—which he last held from 1987 to 1989, during the Ronald Reagan administration.
Garrish told the committee he has dedicated his career to energy—especially nuclear energy—and has worked mostly in public service positions, including posts in the DOE and Office of International Affairs.
The committee will advance Garrish’s nomination to the full U.S. Senate for a final vote, but no timeline was laid out.
A. Klix, A. Domula, U. Fischer, D. Gehre, G. Kleizer, I. Rovni
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | September 2013 | Pages 604-612
Nuclear Systems: Analysis and Experiments | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 2) Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A19159
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We have performed preliminary experimental tests for the development of a neutron spectrometer based on activation foils with short half-lives for the European ITER TBMs. Small samples of candidate materials have been irradiated with DT neutrons from the neutron generator of Technical University of Dresden. A dedicated pneumatic sample transport system has been set up for these initial tests and further development of methods for spectral neutron flux measurements in the TBM. The mass of the samples was on the order of 0.6 g. Although the neutron flux in the irradiation position of the samples was three to five orders of magnitude below the expected flux in the TBM at full DT operation of ITER, it was possible with short irradiation time of 60 s and similar gamma-ray measurement times to obtain the induced activity with moderate uncertainty.
