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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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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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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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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.
Takashi Murakami, Tsunetaka Banba, Haruto Nakamura
Nuclear Technology | Volume 74 | Number 3 | September 1986 | Pages 299-306
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33832
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Soxhlet-type leaching experiments were carried out for SYNROC-C specimens synthesized by three different methods; hot uniaxial pressing, hot isostatic pressing, and atmospheric sintering. The leaching solutions were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy and atomic absorption spectroscopy. When elements such as sodium, cesium, and molybdenum contained in the glass phase of SYNROC-C, they are leached preferentially at the initial stage of leaching. The difference in elemental mass loss between the three SYNROC-C specimens (10 to 102 g/m2) depends mostly on the amount of preferential leaching. The release of the above elements is controlled by preferential leaching at the initial stage and then by diffusion through the host crystalline phases. The other elements not found in the glass phase can mainly be controlled by diffusion.
