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Garrish up for repeat term as DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
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Theodore “Ted” Garrish—who has spent more than four decades working in nuclear—is President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the Department of Energy’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy, or, NE-1.
The nomination was referred to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on February 3. Garrish previously held the office from 1987 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan. Most recently, Kathryn Huff held the NE-1 post, and Michael Goff has served as interim assistant secretary since Huff stepped down in May 2024.
Garrish’s most recent term in public office was as assistant secretary for the Office of International Affairs at the Energy Department, from 2018 to 2021, during Trump’s first term. Supporters say Garrish’s 40-plus years working in the nuclear industry and in nuclear energy oversight positions makes him more than qualified to serve in the DOE office again.
Shin Kajita, Evgeny Veshchev, Maarten De Bock, Robin Barnsley, Manfred Von Hellermann, Michael Walsh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 74 | Number 1 | July-August 2018 | Pages 37-46
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1390389
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In ITER, reflection of photons on vacuum vessel will make parasitic signals (stray light) for optical diagnostics. In this study, to estimate and mitigate the effect of the stray light in ITER in a systematic manner, a ray transfer matrix was constructed based on ray tracing calculations for a divertor impurity monitor and charge-exchange recombination spectroscopy (CXRS). It is shown that the allocation of the sources around the strike point and the X-point, where the emission is strong, is important for the model used to build the transfer matrix to effectively mitigate the stray light. The origin of the stray light for the core CXRS is investigated, and a case study to subtract the stray light is shown.