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Countering the nuclear workforce shortage narrative
James Chamberlain, director of the Nuclear, Utilities, and Energy Sector at Rullion, has declared that the nuclear industry will not have workforce challenges going forward. “It’s time to challenge the scarcity narrative,” he wrote in a recent online article. “Nuclear isn't short of talent; it’s short of imagination in how it attracts, trains, and supports the workforce of the future.”
C.E. Kessel, M.A. Firestone, R.W. Conn
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 680-684
Plasma Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40119
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This paper presents a method for quick determination of plasma shape and position in a tokamak. It is based on relating the plasma shape parameters to multipoles of the external poloidal magnetic field along the midplane. The technique can therefore be used for time dependent studies of the plasma in an electromagnetic environment in lieu of requiring an MHD calculation at each time interval. We obtain simple curves relating the plasma shape parameters to the magnetic multipoles and use standard schemes for determining plasma major and minor radii. The method is compared with actual free boundary MHD calculations.
