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NC State celebrates 70 years of nuclear engineering education
An early picture of the research reactor building on the North Carolina State University campus. The Department of Nuclear Engineering is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its nuclear engineering curriculum in 2020–2021. Photo: North Carolina State University
The Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University has spent the 2020–2021 academic year celebrating the 70th anniversary of its becoming the first U.S. university to establish a nuclear engineering curriculum. It started in 1950, when Clifford Beck, then of Oak Ridge, Tenn., obtained support from NC State’s dean of engineering, Harold Lampe, to build the nation’s first university nuclear reactor and, in conjunction, establish an educational curriculum dedicated to nuclear engineering.
The department, host to the 2021 ANS Virtual Student Conference, scheduled for April 8–10, now features 23 tenure/tenure-track faculty and three research faculty members. “What a journey for the first nuclear engineering curriculum in the nation,” said Kostadin Ivanov, professor and department head.
E. T. Alger, E. G. Dzenitis, E. R. Mapoles, J. L. Klingmann, S. D. Bhandarkar, J. G. Reynolds, J. W. Florio, D. M. Lord, C. Castro, K. Segraves
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 55 | Number 3 | April 2009 | Pages 269-275
Technical Paper | Eighteenth Target Fabrication Specialists' Meeting | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST08-3506
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Inertial confinement fusion ignition experiments in the National Ignition Facility require a capsule containing deuterium-tritium fuel at cryogenic temperatures. To better understand how to produce and control the required uniform fuel ice layer, experimental layering targets are fabricated and assembled to be dimensionally similar to the ignition targets and vacuum leaktight at 18 K. Low production yield of these targets demanded a more quantitative understanding of the interfacial behavior of bonded joints and required the development of more deterministic assembly methods. Each sealing joint was individually analyzed, and target components, assembly processes, and tooling were modified as needed to make robust leaktight targets. The function, design, and assembly methods of experimental layering targets are described.
