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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.
Charles V. McIsaac, Richard S. Denning, Rajiv Kohli, Douglas W. Akers
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 1 | August 1989 | Pages 224-233
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Materials Behavior / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27650
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Radiochemical, elemental, and particle size analyses have been performed on samples collected from the Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor and auxiliary buildings. Measurements of the airborne concentration of iodine several days after the accident indicated that the equilibrium airborne concentration was at a maximum of 0.03% of core inventory inside the reactor building (RB), evidently as organic forms. Iodine was released to the reactor coolant during the accident and ∼14% of the core inventory of iodine was in solution in the water in the RB basement. Between 8 and 100% of the core inventory of iodine was accounted for in the sediment distributed over the RB basement floor. About 47% of the core inventory of cesium was released from the core. The majority of the released cesium was in solution in the water in the RB basement. Antimony and ruthenium were retained in the core, associated with stainless steel materials. Strontium and cerium were retained in the core in the forms of refractory oxides. Fuel and control rod elements found in the reactor coolant drain tank were evidently transported away from the core as condensed vapors in the form of hydrosols.