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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
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.
David G. Nilson, John G. Woodworth
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 578-582
The ICF Laboratory Microfusion Facilty | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39760
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Thegeometrical layout for the 68 beams of the 10 megajoule laser shows the final optics placed at 25 meters from the target (see Fig. 1). The final optic will be a 2–5 cm thick debris shield ($40K each) which will be placed in front of a $200K focussing lens. Each of the 68 beams will deliver 150 kJ of 0.35 µm (3ω) light and will consist of either a 4×4 or a 2×8 array of beamlets, with each beamlet aperture having dimensions of 29 cm × 29 cm. This produces a 3ω energy density at the final optic of 12 J/cm2 average and 225-30 J/cm2 peak.
