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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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.
August W. Cronenberg, Sidney Langer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 1 | August 1989 | Pages 234-242
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Materials Behavior / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27651
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Data from the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) accident have shown that only small amounts of iodine and cesium escaped the plant, on the order of tens of curies. To assess the chemical and physical processes responsible for such a limited release, a detailed investigation of iodine and cesium chemical and transport behavior during the core degradation phase of the TMI-2 accident was initiated. Analyses indicate elemental iodine and cesium release from fuel, which subsequently reacts with the high-temperature steam/ hydrogen effluent to produce the gaseous species Csl and CsOH. Partial condensation and chemisorption of CsOH in the upper reactor plenum and on hot-leg piping is also predicted, where loss of the CsOH molecule from a mixture of H2O, Csl, CsOH, and HI gases in chemical equilibrium can result in destabilization of the Csl molecule to replace CsOH, forming HI in the process. Likewise, Csl reaction with borated water is predicted to have resulted in partial conversion of Csl to cesium borate and HI. A combination of Csl, HI, and CsOH is therefore assessed to be the principal form of iodine and cesium transport leaving the reactor vessel during core degradation. These species were subsequently dissolved in water, resulting in large-scale retention of fission product iodine and cesium.