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Nuclear Criticality Safety
NCSD provides communication among nuclear criticality safety professionals through the development of standards, the evolution of training methods and materials, the presentation of technical data and procedures, and the creation of specialty publications. In these ways, the division furthers the exchange of technical information on nuclear criticality safety with the ultimate goal of promoting the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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The IAEA targets seafood contaminants and plastic pollution in oceans
Oceans link all the continents of the world, and fish don’t respect boundary lines. So it’s fitting that a global organization—the International Atomic Energy Agency—is helping nations detect and monitor both plastic pollution and biotoxins in marine algae that can lead to outbreaks of contaminated seafood.
C. Plichon, R. Gueraud, M. H. Richli, J. F. Casagrande
Nuclear Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | July 1980 | Pages 295-306
Nuclear Fuel Cycle | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32491
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The standardization of nuclear plants offers considerable advantages and results in particular in a reduction in deadlines and costs and in a concentration of the studies and testing facilities on a single type of equipment. In order that this standardization be even more beneficial, Electricité de France and Spie-Batignolles Company have developed the aseismic bearing foundation system based on the combination of elastomer and friction elements. This system permits the reconduction of a standardized nuclear plant in potentially higher seismic areas with an equivalent or even higher degree of safety. The implementation of this concept on actual nuclear power plants has necessitated a comprehensive analysis of technological and mathematical aspects during recent years.