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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.
Shinji Tokumasu, Michihiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Hiranuma, Michiro Yokomi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 71 | Number 3 | December 1985 | Pages 568-579
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33679
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new mathematical programming method has been developed and utilized in OPROD, an existing computer code for automatic generation of control rod programs, as an alternative inner-loop routine for the method of approximate programming. The new routine is constructed of a dual feasible direction algorithm, and consists essentially of two stages of iterative optimization procedures, Optimization Procedures I and II. Both follow almost the same algorithm; Optimization Procedure I searches for feasible solutions and Optimization Procedure II optimizes the objective function. Optimization theory and computer simulations have demonstrated that the new routine could find optimum solutions, even if deteriorated initial control rod patterns were given.