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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. M. Brugger, G. J. Russell, B. W. Johnson, G. P. DeVault†
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 188-203
Technical Paper and Note | Accelerator | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30926
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The conceptual design of a neutron source is described. This device, called Very Intense Neutron Source (VINS) would produce bursts of neutrons to be used for fast- and thermal-neutron beam experiments by time-of-flight methods. The source would have an effective source flux for beam experiments several orders of magnitude above those fluxes now available at the best neutron sources. In the concept, the neutrons produced by an electron linear accelerator would be multiplied by fast reactor modules. These modules would be arranged to provide maximum multiplication while limiting the shock and heat and limiting multiplication of those neutrons from the delayed-neutron precursors. The experimental arrangement and uses of VINS are stressed.
