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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.
B. T. Kelly
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 1 | August 1989 | Pages 96-103
Technical Paper | Materials engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29099
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The available data on the effects of fast neutron irradiation on the properties of fine-grain (POCO) graphites at temperatures between 950 and 1400°C are collected. New results are presented for a number of fine-grain graphites irradiated at 600°C. The results are discussed in terms of the useful lifetimes of the graphite as a function of temperature and the way this is related to crystallite behavior.
