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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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DOE-EM awards $37.5M to Vanderbilt University for nuclear cleanup support
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on January 16 that it has awarded a noncompetitive financial assistance agreement worth $37.5 million to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., to aid the department’s mission of cleaning up legacy nuclear waste.
W. E. Graves, H. R. Fike, G. F. O'Neill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 2 | June 1963 | Pages 186-195
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26498
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The material bucklings of twenty-five D2O moderated lattices of natural UO2 rod clusters were measured in the Process Development Pile (PDP). The measurements were made in one-region loadings, and should therefore be subject to little systematic error. A number of the lattices employed voided housing tubes around the fuel assemblies. Values of migration areas inferred from measurements of positive periods are also presented. An evaluation of the errors in the buckling measurements indicated that the bucklings should be accurate to about 1%. The migration areas are compared with theoretical values obtained from the Benoist theory, and the agreement is shown to be good.