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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.
T.J. Wade, A.S. Kaye, J. Jacquinot
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1398-1403
Machine Upgrades and Next-Generation Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24924
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Design and procurement of the ICRF heating plant for JET began in 1982 on the basis that ten 3 MW generator-antennae units would ultimately provide the 15 MW of effective ICRF heating required in the JET programme. Three of these generator-antennae systems are already operational on JET; 6 MW of RF power has been coupled to the plasma with coupling efficiencies of between 50% and 90% depending on the antennae configuration. Taking advantage of experience gained and recent developments in RF tetrodes, JET is currently revising the antennae design, upgrading the generator RF outputs and now intends to install eight 4 MW generator-antennae units with consequential savings in cost and space in the JET vessel.
