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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.
E. T. Cheng
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1423-1430
Blanket Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39966
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As part of the U.S. DOE Office of Fusion Energy Nuclear Data Needs program, we have continued assessment of the nuclear data needs for the development of fusion energy. We have identified and reviewed the high priority elements whose neutron emission data are needed for a near-term fusion ignition facility and fusion power reactor designs for demonstrating the scientific and engineering feasibilities of fusion energy. We found that most of the elements identified here are lacking experimental data from 6 to 15 MeV except hydrogen, lithium, beryllium, and copper. A list of high priority dosimetry cross sections was developed that includes some 29 reactions, including 6 reactions recommended by the plasma diagnostic group of PPPL. Of these 29 reactions, 18 cross sections were chosen to be included in the ENDF/B-VI dosimetry files. The activation cross sections needed for elements to be used in the near-term ignition device and future power reactors were compiled. These cross sections were prioritized according to their activation levels and half-lives of their activation products. All these cross sections are going to be included in the END/B-VI activation files.