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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.
M. S. Tillack, D. K. Sze, M. A. Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1088-1096
Nuclear Technology Experiments and Facilities | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24878
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The lack of experimental data for liquid metal blankets in the fusion environment restricts our ability to develop designs with demonstrated feasibility and adequately characterized performance. In order to confidently predict neutronic and thermal hydraulic performance of blankets, a variety of experiments will be needed. Ultimately, verification of all nuclear components will require testing in a fusion environment. However, a great deal of information can be obtained prior to fusion testing using non-neutron facilities to explore separate, multiple, and partially integrated effects. A large class of issues which can be effectively studied in a non-neutron environment are those impacted by MHD transport phenomena. A coordinated test program is described below to treat momentum, heat, and mass transport issues for liquid metal blankets.