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2021 Student Conference
April 8–10, 2021
North Carolina State University|Raleigh Marriott City Center
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A day in the life of the nuclear community
The November issue of Nuclear News is focused on the individuals who make up our nuclear community.
We invited a small group of those individuals to tell us about their day-to-day work in some of the many occupations and applications of nuclear science and technology, and they responded generously. They were ready to tell us about the part they play, together with colleagues and team members, in supplying clean energy, advancing technology, protecting safety and health, and exploring fundamental science.
In these pages, we see a community that can celebrate both those workdays that record progress moving at a steady pace and the exceptional days when a goal is reached, a briefing is delivered, a contract goes through, a discovery is made, or an unforeseen challenge is overcome.
The Nuclear News staff hopes that you enjoy meeting these members of our community—or maybe get reacquainted with friends—through their words and photos.
Kun Lu, Shijun Qin, Zhuang Xu, Yang Zhang, Guang Shen, Zhihong Liu, Chen Liu, Jing Wei, Sumei Liu, Yuntao Song, Jiefeng Wu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 3 | April 2019 | Pages 226-233
Regular Technical Paper | dx.doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2018.1555409
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The vacuum vessel (VV), one of the important components for the Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) superconducting magnet tokamak, can provide an ultrahigh vacuum and clean environment for plasma operation. The CFETR VV was preliminarily designed to be a torus with a D-shaped cross section, eight upper vertical ports, eight equatorial ports, and eight lower ports. In order to verify the design and key technologies to be used in the future, a 1/8 VV sector mock-up has been designed and fabricated at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (abbreviated ASIPP). In this paper, the mock-up is used to demonstrate thick austenitic stainless steel plate hot forming, welding, cutting, part segment assembly, and other technologies and developments. The design considerations and criteria of the 1/8 sector mock-up are discussed in detail. Based on these considerations, the main design parameters and characteristics of the 1/8 VV sector mock-up are described, including the inner shells, outer shells, and stiffening ribs between them and the straight line, arcs, and the tangential joint between them. Finally, the research and development of technologies for the mock-up manufacture that has been carried out at ASIPP is discussed.
