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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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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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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
K. A. Niemer, J. G. Gilligan, C. D. Croessmann, A. C. England, D. L. Hillis
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1717-1723
Impurity Control and Plasma-Facing Component | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29589
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Four detection probes were designed with the PTA code package and fabricated to study energy deposition, temperature rise, and damage to plasma facing components from runaway electrons in the Advanced Toroidal Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The PTA code package is a unique application of PATRAN, the Integrated TIGER Series, and ABAQUS for modeling high energy electron impact on magnetic fusion components and materials. Two of the probes were made of stainless steel, one of graphite, and one of molybdenum. They were inserted one at a time on the magnetic axis of ATF during field ramps. Each probe had two thermocouples to measure temperature increases. One of the stainless steel probes had activation foils to detect photonuclear reactions. Analysis of the experiment concluded that runaways on the order of 10 MeV exist in ATF. Damage to the materials was in the form of melting and ablation. The graphite probe survived with less damage than the other probes.