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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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Reboot: Nuclear needs a success . . . anywhere
The media have gleefully resurrected the language of a past nuclear renaissance. Beyond the hype and PR, many people in the nuclear community are taking a more measured view of conditions that could lead to new construction: data center demand, the proliferation of new reactor designs and start-ups, and the sudden ascendance of nuclear energy as the power source everyone wants—or wants to talk about.
Once built, large nuclear reactors can provide clean power for at least 80 years—outlasting 10 to 20 presidential administrations. Smaller reactors can provide heat and power outputs tailored to an end user’s needs. With all the new attention, are we any closer to getting past persistent supply chain and workforce issues and building these new plants? And what will the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president mean for nuclear?
As usual, there are more questions than answers, and most come down to money. Several developers are engaging with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or have already applied for a license, certification, or permit. But designs without paying customers won’t get built. So where are the customers, and what will it take for them to commit?
R. E. Simpson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 8 | August 1967 | Pages 500-506
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27782
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A study has been made of the response of normal lithium fluoride and that depleted of 6Li when exposed to pure gamma rays and to the mixed neutron-plus-gamma fields of reactors. Results from a study of the glow curves of the two materials after gamma-ray exposure are similar. However, after reactor exposures in a known field of thermal neutrons and gamma rays, significant differences were found in the 200 and 275°C glow peaks for approximately the same integrated area under the curves. Presumably these are principally due to differences in the specific ionization of recoil electrons from gamma rays relative to that of the alpha particles and 3H recoils from the 6Li(n,α)3H reaction. By using thermal-neutron shields of 6Li or cadmium, the pure gamma dose can be obtained from the usual gamma-ray glow curves from either material. The response (integrated light output) of the depleted LiF per 1010 n/cm2(th) equals that caused by 0.7 rad of 60Co gamma rays, while the corresponding response of the normal phosphor exceeds that from 200 rad of gamma rays. Having determined the response of these materials to thermal neutrons, and considering the relative independence of the response (per rad) upon gamma-ray energy, one may use the depleted phosphor to determine gamma-ray dose within a reactor environment and the normal material as an auxiliary thermal-neutron-plus-gamma-ray detector.