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Oak Ridge community roundtable explores workforce challenges
Federal and contractor officials, community leaders, and educators gathered in Knoxville, Tenn., on October 29 for a roundtable event focused on ensuring the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its partners have the resources and infrastructure needed to support a robust, talented workforce in the years ahead.
Govind Kumar Mishra, M. Sakthivel, S. L. N. Swamy, K. Madhusoodanan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 174 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 96-102
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE10-74
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The 500-MW(electric)-capacity Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) using sodium as a coolant is under construction at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India. Instrumentation for the measurement of physical and chemical characteristics of liquid sodium in reactor coolant and related applications is described. Various properties of liquid sodium are used for measurement of flow, temperature, level, and leaks. Temperature-dependent solubility of impurities in the liquid sodium is a basis principle of instruments for monitoring the general purity and the specific impurities of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. This technical note deals with the properties of sodium that are relevant to successful sodium instrumentation used for PFBR.
