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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
T. A. Kenfield, W. K. Appleby, H. J. Busboom
Nuclear Technology | Volume 36 | Number 3 | December 1977 | Pages 347-352
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31948
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Type 304 stainless steel has been irradiated to a fluence of 1.4 × 1027 n/m2, E > 0.1 MeV, in the solution-annealed and 10, 20, and 30% cold-worked conditions. Cold working does not impart a continuous reduction in swelling for this alloy. Indeed, in the temperature range from 475 to 550°C (748 to 823 K), the 10 and 20% cold-worked specimens showed more swelling than the alloy in the solution-annealed condition. This behavior appears to be a consequence of differing temperature dependences of swelling. Peak swelling in the cold-worked materials occurs somewhere between 475 and 550°C (748 and 823 K), while the solution-annealed condition peaks at a lower temperature.