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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
M. O. Calderon, A. L. Hunt, D. D. Lang, W. E. Nexsen, W. L. Pickles, W. C. Turner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 364-371
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23207
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The gas inventory of the Tandem Mirror Experiment Upgrade (TMX-U) must be carefully controlled, if it is to successfully create various plasma configurations for thermal barrier experiments designed to provide an improved performance for tandem mirror experiments. This paper is a progress report on the calibration methods and pressure measurements of machine conditions deriving from recently improved neutral-beam gas control, and changes to the internal baffling geometry and the gettering system.Various recorded pressure vs time histories produced by the machine's internal vacuum systems and their pumping mechanisms are presented. An upgraded computer code for calculating dynamic pressures is described. Our concluding remarks deal with the problems of establishing and maintaining a pressure measuring system for a large fusion experiment, where the quality and reliability of components must be carefully considered.
