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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.
R. F. Gandy, M. A. Henderson, J. D. Hanson, S. F. Knowlton, T. A. Schneider, D. G. Swanson, J. R. Gary
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 2 | September 1990 | Pages 281-290
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29300
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Compact Auburn Torsatron (CAT) is a low-aspect ratio, continuous coil, toroidal magnetic fusion device. It has two main helical coils: an l = 2, m = 5 coil and an l = 1, m = 5 coil. The machine has a major radius of 53 cm, an average plasma radius of 11 cm, and a steady-state magnetic field of 1 kG. It was designed using an optimization scheme that employs the coil positions and coil winding laws as parameters. Once CAT is operational, the research program will focus on the study of magnetic flux surfaces and ion cyclotron heating. The choices and compromises encountered in building a low-aspect ratio torsatron are discussed.
