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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.
Xiaojun Ma, Qi Wang, Zongwei Wang, Xiangyu Wan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 6 | August 2021 | Pages 446-453
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1927624
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The oxygen concentration in the glow discharge polymer (GDP) capsule is one of the perturbations that most limit implosion quality. In order to investigate the feasibility of the Rutherford backscattering (RBS) technique for characterizing the oxygen concentration in a GDP capsule, the basic principle of RBS and the experimental conditions are introduced first. Then, the irradiation damage effect of incident ions on the GDP film is simulated numerically. The simulated results demonstrate that the GDP films will be damaged by the incident ions, and the vacancy damage dominates in irradiation modification. Finally, some GDP thin films are measured using RBS, and the oxygen concentration and its depth profile are obtained from the measured RBS spectrum. The simulated and experimental results prove that the oxygen concentration of GDP films can be measured precisely using RBS with an uncertainty of about 3.5%.
