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NN Asks: What did you learn from ANS’s Nuclear 101?
Mike Harkin
When ANS first announced its new Nuclear 101 certificate course, I was excited. This felt like a course tailor-made for me, a transplant into the commercial nuclear world. I enrolled for the inaugural session held in November 2024, knowing it was going to be hard (this is nuclear power, of course)—but I had been working on ramping up my knowledge base for the past year, through both my employer and at a local college.
The course was a fast-and-furious roller-coaster ride through all the key components of the nuclear power industry, in one highly challenging week. In fact, the challenges the students experienced caught even the instructors by surprise. Thankfully, the shared intellectual stretch we students all felt helped us band together to push through to the end.
We were all impressed with the quality of the instructors, who are some of the top experts in the field. We appreciated not only their knowledge base but their support whenever someone struggled to understand a concept.
Yuji Nakamura, Masahiro Wakatani, Jean-Noel Leboeuf, B. A. Carreras, N. Dominguez, Jeff A. Holmes, V. E. Lynch, S. L. Painter, Luis Garcia
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 2 | March 1991 | Pages 217-233
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29361
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Confinement properties of l-2 torsatron/heliotron configurations with number of toroidal field periods, M, in the range of 10 to 14 are studied. This involves the calculation of zero-current and flux-conserving equilibria; stability against Mercier modes and low-n ideal modes, with n denoting the toroidal mode number; and orbit confinement of deeply trapped energetic particles. Optimization of both mag-netohydrodynamic (MHD) and transport properties is pursued under the condition of plasma aspect ratio A = R/a ≥ 7, with R denoting the major radius and a the average plasma radius. For configurations with M ≤ 12, an average MHD beta limit of 4 to 5% is possible. The addition of a quadrupole field improves the confinement of trapped particles at zero pressure, but particle losses increase with increasing beta. This loss is less severe if the vacuum magnetic axis is shifted slightly inward. A configuration with M = 10, a coil pitch parameter pc in the range 1.25 to 1.30, and an added quadrupole field satisfies the beta and energetic particle confinement requirements for the next generation of large torsatron/heliotron devices.
