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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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.
Takaharu Fukuzaki, Takashi Kiguchi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 72 | Number 3 | March 1986 | Pages 291-300
Technical Paper | Radiation Protection and Health Physics Practices and Experience in Operating Reactors Internationally / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33767
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Effective use of the measured readings of sensors in on-line plant monitoring has been studied, based on an error theory. Both the measured reading and the calculated one, obtained by an analytical model of the plant, are treated as observed values, and the maximum-likelihood estimator is determined so as to minimize its mean-squared error. The difference between the estimator and the calculated reading is used to adapt the model to the current plant state and to increase accuracy of the calculated reading. The index of systematicness, which indicates the mutual independence of the two observed values, has been evaluated to determine the step in the procedure where the above adaptation is to be inserted. The error-theory-based model adaptation procedure has been experimentally applied to boiling water reactor power distribution calculations, and its performance has been verified in simulation calculations at different core states and different numbers of in-core neutron monitors by evaluating the expected error of the calculated readings. Compared to the adaptation, which uses the measured readings instead of the estimator, the error is typically lowered by more than 2% and is less affected by the number of monitors.