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Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Francisco Castejón, Maxim A. Tereshchenko, Karen A. Sarksyan, Ángela Fernández, Álvaro Cappa, G. M. Batanov, A. S. Sakharov, Romualdo Martín
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 46 | Number 2 | September 2004 | Pages 327-334
Technical Papers | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A571
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The feasibility of heating TJ-II plasmas by electron Bernstein waves (EBWs) is studied. As a first approach, the Clemmov-Mullaly-Allis diagram is studied to explore the possible heating regimes, and the TRUBA ray- and beam-tracing code, which has been adapted to the complicated TJ-II geometry, is used to perform detailed calculations. The final result is that it is possible to heat plasmas by overcoming the cutoff density of electromagnetic modes by injecting the O mode and X mode at the first harmonic, exploiting the O-X-B1 and the X-B1 schemes. Transport simulations are performed to estimate the plasma parameters that are expected in those regimes and to study the transition from the X mode at the second harmonic to EBW heating at the first harmonic.
