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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.”
Thomas E. Romesser
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 767-778
Plasma Heating, Impurity Control, and Fueling | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40129
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The utilization of ICRF heating for mirror devices has developed renewed interest with the major devices now operating. Recent results have shown efficient ion heating, control of the ion distribution function and suppression of instabilities by use of RF power in the ICRF regime. These results as well as the design considerations for reactor concepts such as MARS make ICRF heating important for the mirror program. The ICRF system must meet both the start up requirements for mirror devices as well as providing a source of power for operation at high temperatures. Methods for obtaining the desired results have been under development for the MFTF-B device. With the start up of MFTF-B the mirror applications of ICRF will be operating in the reactor relevant regime of density and temperature.
