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Education, Training & Workforce Development
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
Standards Program
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.
Ronald F. Tuttle, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 69 | Number 3 | June 1985 | Pages 319-326
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33614
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Nonspherical aerosols can be encountered in postulated severe core damage accidents in nuclear reactors. Aerosol behavior equations are thus modified to account for the departure from spherical shapes by the introduction of a range of “shape factors,which are defined in terms of a specified characteristic dimension or property of the particles. These factors are then introduced into the aerosol behavior equation by modifying the normalized collision kernel. When gravitational effects alone are considered, the kernel is reduced to the gravitational collision kernel, and shape factors for individual particles are typically defined in terms of the dynamic shape factor, which is the ratio of the Stokes settling velocity to the aerodynamic settling velocity, and the collision shape factor (the ratio of the collision diameter to the volume equivalent diameter). Due to the inconsistencies and ambiguities of current usage, separate effects information on the collision shape factor is unavailable. A new shape factor, β, is introduced to clarify the definitions and relationships between the collision efficiencies of nonspherical and “equivalent” spherical particles. The shape factor, β, can be obtained from mechanistic considerations.