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Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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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.
Makoto Senoh, Sakae Sugiyama, Masayoshi Sasaki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 72 | Number 3 | March 1986 | Pages 321-327
Technical Paper | Radiation Protection and Health Physics Practices and Experience in Operating Reactors Internationally / Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33770
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Lighting and image-processing techniques for automatic fuel-number recognition in boiling water reactors (BWRs) are described. High-contrast images of fuel numbers are obtained for various types of fuel subassemblies by introducing shallow-angle lighting. Moreover, high-quality binary-valued images can be obtained by multidirectional lighting and character reconstruction techniques. These techniques are experimentally confirmed using test subassemblies. The multidirectional lighting is verified to be superior to unidirectional lighting in terms of its recognition rate and its applicability to an automatic fuel-number recognition system for BWRs.
