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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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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.
H. Mogard, H. Knaab, U. Bergenlid, G. Lysell
Nuclear Technology | Volume 69 | Number 2 | May 1985 | Pages 236-242
Technical Note | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33634
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The Studsvik Demo-Ramp-II Project was an internationally sponsored research project designed to investigate the pellet/clad interaction phenomenon during short time power transients. The project included eight fuel rod segments of standard boiling water reactor design, which were operated to burnups ranging from 25 to 29 MWd/kg uranium in a power reactor. The rods were subsequently subjected to power ramp or transient tests in the Studsvik R2 reactor. The failure threshold (where cladding failure and fission product release occur after a sufficient time) was determined from two ramp tests to be ∼40 kW/m for the present rods. The six remaining rods were then subjected to short power transients to heat generation rates up to 48 kW/m. No cladding failures were detected after the transients, by activity release or examination by means of neutron radiography. The unexpected result was, however, that a large number of nonpenetrating (incipient) cladding cracks were formed very rapidly, within a minute. The crack depths, measured by scanning electron microscopy, ranged from 10 to 50% of the cladding wall thickness.