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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.
O. K. Tallent, R. P. Wichner, Roy L. Towns
Nuclear Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | March 1985 | Pages 336-343
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33579
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The transport or diffusion of uranium (as a stand-in for plutonium) was investigated under conditions approximating those of the primary coolant loop in a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. Profiles were obtained for uranium penetration in H-451 graphite at temperatures ranging from 900 to 1400°C. Profile data for given temperatures were considered in terms of the following expression: where C is the concentration of uranium at time t, for distance x, into the pellet; C0 is a constant representing the uranium concentration at x = 0 for all t, and D is the diffusion coefficient. Diffusion coefficients for uranium initially present as dicarbide at 1000 and 1400°C were found to be defined byFor uranium initially present as dioxide at 900, 1000, and 1400°C, diffusion coefficients are defined bywhere R is the gas constant and T is the temperature in degrees Kelvin.