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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 436-442
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29279
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Possible excitation of thermonuclear cone instabilities caused by anisotropy in alpha-particle velocity distribution is considered in tokamak reactor plasmas for frequencies much lower than electron cyclotron frequency. In the ignited tokamak reactor experiment, for example the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), Alfvén waves are excited at frequencies comparable to alpha-particle cyclotron frequency. The growth rate, the region of instability localization in the plasma cross section, and the marginal stability boundaries in the n-T plane are determined for cone Alfvén wave instability.