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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.
J. L. Luxon, L. G. Davis
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 441-449
Large Project | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40083
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The Doublet III tokamak facility is presently undergoing an upgrade to Big Dee, a device projected to be capable of producing plasmas with parameters approaching breakeven conditions, albeit in hydrogen plasmas. The goal of the upgrade has been to develop a facility capable of studying confinement and beta in non-circular discharges at parameters near breakeven conditions while maintaining the flexibility and accessibility necessary to allow a wide range of problems to be addressed. The upgrade replaces the vacuum vessel and outermost plasma shaping coils allowing higher plasma currents and improved access.
