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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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Pew shows majority support for U.S. nuclear
A number of surveys and polls, such as Bisconti Research and University of Michigan surveys, have found steady or growing support for nuclear energy among Americans during the past several years. The Pew Research Center on Aug. 5 reported its nuclear-related findings from its survey conducted in May with a representative sample of U.S. adults. The results show 56 percent of respondents favor the construction of additional nuclear power plants in the United States.
That level of support is similar to last year’s findings (57 percent support) and is up substantially from the 43 percent, 50 percent, and 54 percent that Pew Research reported in 2020, 2021, and 2022, respectively.
D. A. Bowers, J. R. Haines, M. D. McSmith, V. D. Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1138-1142
Ignition Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29496
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT) project, led by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, will employ a double null poloidal divertor as its primary means of energy and particle removal from the plasma. The fusion power handling capability of the divertor may represent the most severe constraint on the operating envelope for CIT. In addition to identifying this envelope based on divertor thermal performance, several studies aimed at improving this performance were examined. The reference divertor design concept employs small modules with pyrolytic graphite (PG) tiles. Studies of the sensitivity of the thermal performance of the passively cooled PG divertor design to separatrix sweeping parameters showed that a single pass sweep is near optimal for CIT conditions. An examination of the thermal performance of alternate materials found that some improvement (up to 20%) in the power handling capability of the divertor may be possible by using higher conductivity forms of PG, although the mechanical properties of these materials are not currently available. Alternate power handling approaches were examined and shown to have no significant improvement in thermal performance over the baseline passively cooled approach.