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Four million nuclear jobs by 2050: Who will do them?
Industry leaders from around the globe met this month to discuss the talent development that will be necessary for the long-term success of the nuclear industry.
The International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management and Human Resources Development, hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency, was held in Vienna earlier this month. Discussed there was the agency’s forecast for nuclear capacity to more than double—or hopefully triple—by 2050 and the requirement of more than four million professionals to support the industry.
Dieter Althaus, Nicolas Brahy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 78 | Number 3 | September 1987 | Pages 284-294
Nuclear Power Plant Kalkar (SNR-300) | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A15994
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Handling equipment is installed at the rotating shield plug of the reactor vessel after a shutdown for refueling or for replacing of defective fuel subassemblies. Core subassemblies are unloaded (after a short decay time) inside sodium-filled cans by means of a shielded gas-cooled flask and are placed in a sodium-cooled storage vessel for activity decay. To locate a fuel pin defect in the core, suspicious fuel subassemblies are extracted from the core and leak tested above the core using the in-vessel handling machine. Handling machines are developed from corresponding KNKII equipment supported by prototype tests performed in an Interatom sodium test facility. Handling of core subassemblies and of other radioactive components outside the reactor vessel is done by a multipurpose transfer machine. The sodium-cooled fuel storage has a capacity of one core loading of fuel subassemblies. Handling operations are remotely controlled. Provisions are made for an outer dimensional control of fuel subassemblies in the course of a refueling shutdown. The preoperational tests under sodium are completed, and some of the reflector subassemblies have been loaded into the core under sodium. These tests and operations have shown reliable equipment performance.