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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.
(Prepared by P.L. Mondino, E. Bertolini)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1375-1385
Machine Upgrades and Next-Generation Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24922
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Three years have passed since the Joint European Torus (JET) started operation in June 1983. Phase I of the scientific programme, devoted to ohmic heating studies, has been completed. Phase II, devoted to additional heating studies started in January 1985. From the technical point of view JET has been entirely successful: indeed the plasma current, an important figure of merit for a tokamak, has reached 5.1 MA for 3s, (exceeding the design value of 4.8 MA). Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating has added up to 6 MW to the plasma and Neutral Beam Injection has added up to 10 MW. The energy confinement time in ohmic discharges has reached 0.8s; but degradation has been observed with additional heating. Recently, combined heating (Padd up to 14.5 MW) allowed achievement of ion and electron temperatures of −7.5 keV at densities of ∼3 − 1019 m−3. Several proposals for improvements of the JET scientific performance are reported in the paper and summarised in the new development programme.
