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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
T. Kammash
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 1 | September 1975 | Pages 92-95
Technical Paper | Education | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A15941
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A new breed of nuclear engineers will be needed in the years preceding demonstration of scientific feasibility of controlled thermonuclear reactions (expected in the early 1980’s) and for many decades afterwards to help solve the technological problems and to ultimately design, man, and operate fusion power reactors. A comprehensive graduate training program in “fusion science and engineering” for this new breed of engineers is proposed.