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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.
Chang K. Park, Robert A. Bari, William Kerr
Nuclear Technology | Volume 81 | Number 3 | June 1988 | Pages 360-369
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A16057
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Containment performance criteria (CPC) are derived systematically, given top level safety goals related to public risk. The main focus is on the relationships between the top level safety goals and lower level design objectives, and the way in which the latter are determined. A set of CPC is identified in terms of the reliabilities of the systems that perform various containment functions. The multiobjective optimization approach is used as a method for deriving a finite manageable set of self-consistent relations between the top level safety goals and specific containment performance. As a global set of measures of plant performance or objective functions, acute and latent fatalities and the total reliability cost are chosen. The latter is included because it represents both technical and economic limitations in achieving a certain level of the first two members of the global set. A specific application is made to a large dry containment. A set of noninferior solutions (optimized solutions in a multiobjective optimization problem) is shown and discussed.