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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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.
T. Honda, J. Doggett
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1432-1438
ITER | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29543
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The Assembly and Maintenance (A&M) System is the complete set of personnel, equipment, and procedures required to successfully assembly and maintain the ITER components into a reactor capable of operation in the prescribed manner. It is composed of the complete collection of general and special purpose tools and their operating procedures, required for the assembly and maintenance of the ITER device. Included are the reactor specific auxiliary equipment (such has vacuum pumps and heating systems) directly coupled to the reactor and required for its operation. Also included are special facilities, including tools and fixtures, required for preassembly, inspection, disassembly, repair, or testing of components prior to delivery and final assembly. The A&M system operated within an envelope bounded by the plant confinement/containment system. It must have access to all reactor external and internal surface as required to perform its functions. Access to in-vessel components shall be primarily through the four designated maintenance ports located on the machine equatorial plane. Other ports, such as the top vertical port, can be used for maintenance; however, their use shall be limited to less frequent or unplanned operations such as the change-out of internal shielding or blankets, or recovery from an unforeseen event.
