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Education, Training & Workforce Development
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.
Meeting Spotlight
Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
Standards Program
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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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.
Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Kazunori Morishita, Akira Kohyama, Howard L. Heinisch, Fei Gao
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 328-330
Fusion Materials | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8923
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Molecular dynamics and molecular statics calculations have been performed to evaluate the formation energy of self-interstitial atom (SIA) clusters in -SiC. For SIA-clusters with stoichiometric composition, an attempt has been made to fit the calculated data points to a polynomial function of cluster size n. The resultant equation EF=1.01n1+2.04n1/2 may indicate the applicability to a wide range of cluster sizes. This formalization will be useful for the development of accurate model on nucleation and growth of SIA-clusters, which is required for the modeling on irradiation-induced microstructural evolutions of materials in nuclear fusion reactors.