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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 747-752
Fusion Materials—Radiation Effects and Activation | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24830
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An assessment is made of the gamma radiation hazards likely to be found near a fusion reactor which employs a vanadium alloy for the blanket and first wall structure, ferritic-steel HT9 for the remainder of the loop and molten salt FLiBe as coolant/tritium breeding fluid. Since the radiation levels near the primary loop components are found to be less than 100 mR/hr 3–5 days after shutdown after three years of continuous full power operation, limited hands-on maintenance is conceivable. The very short half-lives of the predominant corrosion products make this result possible and make such a system very attractive.