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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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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
Robert E. Rothe, Inki Oh
Nuclear Technology | Volume 41 | Number 2 | December 1978 | Pages 207-225
Technical Paper | Extraction of Energy From Nuclear Fuels Without Reprocessing to Separate Plutonium / Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32106
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Seventy-six benchmark critical conditions are reported. Both material and geometry properties are so well determined as to reduce greatly any contribution to a theoretical/experimental discrepancy attributable to the experiment. The program uses uranyl nitrate solution with the uranium enriched to 93.17% 235U. The concentration ranges from 54.89 to 369.96 g U/ℓ Unreflected experiments are reported, as well as measurements within thick-walled cubical reflector shells composed of such common materials as concrete and plastic. For experiments using a single tank, the diameter of the tank ranged from 27.88 to 50.69 cm, and arrays of up to 16 cylinders have containers of two diameters: 16.12 and 21.12 cm. Containers composed of aluminum or stainless steel are studied. For all these parameters, the critical heights range from 17.13 to 110.20 cm.