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This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
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Taking shape: Fusion energy ecosystems built with public-private partnerships
It’s possible to describe fusion in simple terms: heat and squeeze small atoms to get abundant clean energy. But there’s nothing simple about getting fusion ready for the grid.
Private developers, national lab and university researchers, suppliers, and end users working toward that goal are developing a range of complex technologies to reach fusion temperatures and pressures, confounded by science and technology gaps linked to plasma behavior; materials, diagnostics, and electronics for extreme environments; fuel cycle sustainability; and economics.
The Washington DC Local Section established this scholarship in June 2009 for a student in the Washington, DC area pursuing a degree in nuclear engineering, health physics, or nuclear-related studies.
In 2021, the scholarship was named after Dr. Jeffrey A. Gorman, the section's treasurer.
Jeffrey A. Gorman
Jeffrey Archibald Gorman of Washington, DC died peacefully at home on January 20, 2021, with his wife of 57 years by his side. In addition to his wife, Virginia West Gorman, he leaves his son Thomas Gorman and his wife Shanna, his daughter Jill Smith and her husband Paul, and three wonderful grandchildren, as well as other family and friends. His older siblings, Dennis Gorman and Patricia Carpentier-Alting and his twin sister, Janet Graham, all predeceased him.
Jeff was born in China on August 6, 1935, the son of Neil Archibald Gorman and Ruth Fearing Stevens Gorman. At the time of his birth, his father had an engineering construction firm. Raised off and on in China and U.S, Jeff finished high school in Connecticut and earned a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from Cornell University. In 1959 he enlisted in the Navy and was stationed in Washington at Naval Reactors, an organization headed by Admiral Rickover. He did engineering work for Naval Reactors for six years. During this period he married and in 1965, he and Ginni moved to California where Jeff earned MS and Ph.D. degrees in engineering science at the California Institute of Technology. There he concentrated on the study of material science, which was the main focus of his work during the rest of his career.
Returning to Washington in 1968, he worked as a consulting engineer in the civilian nuclear power field from 1968 until his retirement in 2017, first at MPR Associates, and then for Dominion Engineering, Inc., a firm that he and two colleagues (with the support of their wives) founded in 1980.
Jeff was an avid sailor, first in small racing boats and later as a windsurfer. Over the years he did many volunteer tasks at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church. He was a volunteer research assistant at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and was an active member of a book club and a French reading group. He maintained an interest in China and studied the language and culture, as well as working as a consultant to a Chinese nuclear power company, He also remained active in the local section of the American Nuclear Society. He and his wife moved to the Ingleside at Rock Creek retirement community in 2016, and he had several volunteer tasks there, including being president of the residents association.
Washington DC Local Section
A selection committee will be established by the Washington DC Local Section.
Administered by the Local Section Education Subcommittee consisting of at least three (3) members.
Undergraduate (Junior and Senior)
1 awarded annually @ $2,500/each
Because of the lack of an undergraduate program in nuclear engineering, health physics, or nuclear-related studies at a "local" university, a student must meet all of the following criteria:
In the future, if a local college or university establishes an undergraduate program in nuclear engineering, health physics, or other nuclear-related studies, the section may consider expanding eligibility to students from outside the Washington, DC area who are attending a local institution.
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