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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The newest era of workforce development at ANS
As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
Jack Hovingh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 173-177
Hybrids and Nonelectric Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22863
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Performance of an inertial fusion system for the production of hydrogen is compared to a tandem mirror system hydrogen producer. Both systems use the General Atomic sulfur-iodine hydrogen production cycle and produce no net electric power to the grid. An ICF-driven hydrogen producer will have higher system gains and lower electrical-consumption ratios than the design point for the tandem mirror system if the inertial fusion energy gain ηQ > 8.8. For the ICF system to have a higher hydrogen production rate per unit fusion power than the tandem mirror system requires that ηQ > 17. These can be achieved utilizing realistic laser and pellet performances.
