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Robotics & Remote Systems
The Mission of the Robotics and Remote Systems Division is to promote the development and application of immersive simulation, robotics, and remote systems for hazardous environments for the purpose of reducing hazardous exposure to individuals, reducing environmental hazards and reducing the cost of performing work.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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U.S. and Japan collaborate on high-burnup fast reactor fuel safety tests at INL
Idaho National Laboratory recently conducted a safety test on high-burnup fast reactor fuel from historic irradiation testing at the lab’s Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II). According to the Department of Energy, which announced the work March 12, it’s the first such safety test to be performed in over 20 years.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Monday, November 16, 2020|3:40–5:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Juan Caneses (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
David Strutz (American Nuclear Society)
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Pressure Response Optimization of an Eddy Current Driven Valve for the ITER Shattered Pellet Injection System
Adriana G Ghiozzi (ORISE), Monica L Gehrig (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Dave A Rasmussen, Larry R Baylor, Milton N Ericson, Trey E Gebhart (ORNL), Danah A Velez (ORISE)
Paper
Structural Analysis of the US ITER ECH Transmission Line System
Kevin Freudenberg, Kristine Cochran, Robert Myatt, Michael Kaufman, Aravind Shanmugasundaram (ORNL)
Optimization of Ion Flow Rates in a Helicon Injected IEC Fusion System
George H Miley, Qiheng Cai (University of Illinois)
Parallel operation with 9 sets of inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IECF) devices
Hodaka Osawa (Kansai University, Japan)
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Identification of hydrogen isotope ratio on IECF experiment with getter pump using deuterium and tritium mixed gas
Hodaka Osawa (Kansai University, Japan), Teppei Ohta (Kansai University, Japan)
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