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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.
David S. Zuckerman, Raymond J. Puigh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 974-979
Blanket and First-Wall 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-A40160
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In order to test the reliability and compatibility of first-wall/blanket components for a fusion engineering test reactor, it is important to determine the interactive effects between properties of different materials which are in contact or close proximity. This paper describes an approach to the selection and design of subscale interactive testing for fusion nuclear components, and gives two examples of interactive tests which can be performed in current fission- and accelerator-based neutron sources. The goal of these interactive tests is to analyze the behavior of nuclear components (such as the first wall and blanket) in a fusion engineering test reactor in order to verify predictions of their lifetimes and failure modes.
