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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Hikaru Amano
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 488-492
Environment | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22637
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Field studies were undertaken on both a wetland, which is downgrabient from a radioactive waste storage area at Chalk River Laboratory, and a grassland near Pickering nuclear power station. The purpose for this study was to quantify HTO (tritiated water/vapor) transfer in the land surface environment. The amounts of evaporation and transpiration were separately estimated, because the specific activity of tritium (HTO) is commonly different between surface and subsurface soil. Most of the water and tritium fluxes are attributed to transpiration in the season examined. Measured tritium concentrations in leaves at daytime agreed with predicted values, which are based on a simple equation. The ratios of organically bound tritium (OBT) to free water tritium ranged from 0.2 to 0.8 in this study.