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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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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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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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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.
Joe L. Ratigan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | November 1984 | Pages 228-244
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33513
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Emplacement of commercial high-level radioactive waste in an underground repository in salt may result in the transport of brine from the rock salt to the metal surfaces of the waste package. The input parameters necessary to examine this phenomena are not precisely known; however, ranges in the input parameters can be estimated. Using a coupled finite element model for brine transport, the input parameters are treated as stochastic quantities to obtain the range in brine quantities that may come in contact with the waste package. The range in brine quantities is broad, but a major portion of the range can be attributed to the range in only three input quantities.
