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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
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.
J. D. Gordon, D. H. Berwald, B. A. Flanders, J. K. Garner, S. C. Mortenson, J. F. Parmer, C. A. Sink, J. C. Yu, K. L. Agarwal, S. Dharmarajn, N. M. Ghoniem, N. J. Hoffman, J. R. Bilton, B. E. Kirstein
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1233-1238
Blanket and First Wall Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23026
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A new, two-zone tandem mirror blanket designed for the dual applications of high efficiency electricity production or process heat for synthetic fuel production is presented. The blanket is self-sufficient in tritium production, delivers 46% of the blanket energy at 900 to 1000°C, meets guidelines for near-surface burial of radioactive wastes and couples to a power cycle that has a net efficiency of 44%. The design is based on a new concept of a dilute mixture of a solid breeder with a high temperature material that extends the temperature range of the breeder. The low temperature zone is Li17Pb83 cooled while the high temperature zone is cooled with helium.