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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.
Om Pal Singh, P. Bhaskar Rao
Nuclear Technology | Volume 71 | Number 2 | November 1985 | Pages 411-416
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33693
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The core disruptive accident (CDA) analysis of liquid-metal fast breeder reactors is often performed using the saturated vapor pressure equation of state for the fuel. However, during the transient heating of the fuel in a voided core in the disassembly phase of CDAs, the fuel vapor pressure buildup may lag behind the temperature rise and thus may lead to the delayed disassembly of the core and the consequent large energy release. The formulations for such transient vapor pressure buildup and the results on the dynamics of fuel vapor pressure during the transient heating and its influence on the thermal energy release in a CDA are presented. The energy release calculations have been performed by incorporating the present formalism in the disassembly analysis code VENUS-II. In view of the uncertainties in some of the physical parameters, a parametric study was conducted to evaluate the effects of such uncertainties in their values on the results. These results are discussed in detail.