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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 1856-1860
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40031
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ICF dry wall components of high temperature materials are analyzed for temperature response, thermal stress and mechanical stress from induced vibration. The effects of temperature-dependent conductivity and elasticity are assessed for components subjected to sequential heat flux pulses. Graphite, unirradiated and irradiated silcon carbide are considered. It is shown that since graphite has a negative conductivity change and positive modulus change with increasing temperature, the difference between the variable and constant property solutions for stress can be significant, particularly for smaller pulse widths. Such differences are not as great for silicon carbide due to a decreasing modulus with increasing temperature.