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Katy Huff reflects on her time in the Office of Nuclear Energy
After three years in the Department of Energy, including two as assistant secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy, Katy Huff stepped down in May to return to the world of academia as a professor at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.
Among her many accomplishments while serving as NE-1, Huff pushed for energy security—both at home and abroad, in places like war-torn Ukraine—and for the development of additional advanced and traditional nuclear plants, the potential restart of shuttered nuclear facilities, and a better funding stream for college nuclear programs.
D. Vezinet, D. Mazon, D. Clayton, R. Guirlet, M. O'Mullane, D. Villegas
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | January 2013 | Pages 9-19
Selected Paper from Seventh Fusion Data Validation Workshop 2012 (Part 3) | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-475
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
To obtain a fast estimation of the total impurity density distribution in a poloidal cross section from soft X-ray (SXR) measurements during quasi-stationary phases, the possibility that ionization equilibrium may have little influence on the emissivity profile of Ni and Fe in the core region of tokamak plasmas is investigated. Preliminary and encouraging results that support this assumption under certain conditions are found. A simplified approach aimed at computing a satisfactory estimation of the total density of a unique and identified impurity directly from an absolutely calibrated SXR tomographic inversion is implemented. An example of application to a previously and independently performed transport simulation of a Ni injection in Tore Supra is then given.