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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 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1184-1188
Beryllium Technology | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39928
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Beryllium particles generated in several industrial and research activities were characterized. The purpose of this investigation was to select appropriate aerosols for experiments designed to study the potential health hazards from using beryllium in fusion reactor systems. Aerosols of beryllium metal and beryllium oxide were obtained from an industrial machining operation, from laboratory studies using an electron beam and a laser beam, and from a research fusion device. Samples of stock beryllium metal and beryllium oxide powders were also examined. Respirable size particles were found in all cases. Beryllium particles from powder metallurgy and particles generated from machining beryllium metal were irregular in shape, typical of comminution processes. Particles produced at subatmospheric pressures in the electron beam and fusion devices were also irregular in shape and may have resulted from sputtering of beryllium by the plasma or the electron beam. Particles formed by laser vaporization at atmospheric pressure were branched-chain aggregates with individual particles appearing crystalline in shape.
