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The Mission of the Robotics and Remote Systems Division is to promote the development and application of immersive simulation, robotics, and remote systems for hazardous environments for the purpose of reducing hazardous exposure to individuals, reducing environmental hazards and reducing the cost of performing work.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
S.L. Bogart, C.E. Wagner, N.A. Krall, S. Sedehi, C.F. Weggel, J.A. Dalessandro, T.J. Seed, K.O. Lund
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1404-1411
Machine Upgrades and Next-Generation Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24925
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Demountable Toroidal Fusion Core (DTFC) concept has been analyzed for the Inductively Heated Tokamak (IHT), the Spherical Tokamak (ST), and the Reversed Field Pinch (RFP) for Fusion Engineering Research Facility (FERF) applications. Each of these confinement concepts is viewed as a “core” that is inserted into a surrounding machine envelope including, for example, the outboard toroidal field coil turns, the major poloidal equilibrium coils, blanket and materials testing stations, and a tension-suppression system (precompression) that provides mechanical integrity during the ignition and burn phases. Parametric systems analysis reveals that DTFC FERF operation is possible for all three confinement configurations with the IHT being the most costly and technologically challenging and the RFP being the least costly and, perhaps, least technologically challenging. Future work on the DTFC will be directed toward a Toroidal Physics Optimization Facility.