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From kindergarten classrooms to national security facilities, each event I attended during the opening weeks of the new year underscored one truth: The future of nuclear energy depends on the people we inspire, educate, and empower today.
I had a busy start to 2026, first speaking at the Nashville Energy and Mining Summit alongside Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association senior vice president Justin Maierhofer to explore the necessary synergies among policy, academic coursework, research, and industry expertise in accelerating American nuclear innovation. Drawing on experiences in high-level government relations and public affairs and decades of work in nuclear instrumentation advancements, we discussed Tennessee’s nuclear renaissance, workforce development, and policy frameworks that support emerging energy demands.
Satoshi Sato, Takashi Nakamura, Takeo Nishitani
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 4 | June 2003 | Pages 559-568
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A301
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The neutron streaming through a small circular duct in a shielding blanket module in the deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion reactor was evaluated, and the helium production at a plug of the cooling water branch pipe was calculated by a three-dimensional Monte Carlo method. By changing systematically the duct diameter, the blanket thickness, and the boron content in the plug, analytical representations of the helium production could be obtained as functions of these parameters based on the Monte Carlo results. Their dependencies on the blanket composition could also be clarified. The analytical formulas thus obtained were applied to clarify the shielding design condition required to satisfy the shielding design criteria for a DT fusion reactor.