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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)
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Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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.
Ansar Parvez
Nuclear Technology | Volume 68 | Number 2 | February 1985 | Pages 235-241
Technical Paper | Fabrication of Components of the Creys-Malville Plant / Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33556
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The effect of the introduction of 236U because of the recycling of nuclear fuel has been determined for a typical pressurized water reactor fuel cycle. It has been estimated that an extra 0.255 g of 235U is required for each gram of 236U present at the beginning of exposure. In terms of cost, the additional 235U translates into an ∼1% increase in the fuel cost for every gram of 236U. The value of the uranium component of the exposed fuel has also been calculated in terms of the savings in separative work and the feed requirements resulting from the use of recycled uranium. While the exact value depends on the fuel cycle component costs and the relative concentrations of 235U and 236U, it is estimated that even after accounting for the presence of 236U, the use of reprocessed uranium may result in a total saving of ∼14% in ore and enrichment costs. It was also found that upon repeated recycling, 236U reaches an equilibrium concentration, but only if the recycled fuel ratio in the feed to enrichment plant is limited to about 1 part in 5.