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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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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.
Nasir Majid Mirza, Ansar Parvez
Nuclear Technology | Volume 78 | Number 2 | August 1987 | Pages 191-196
Technical Note | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A33997
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The recycle value of the fuel discharged from light water reactors has been determined from the viewpoint of recycle in pressurized water reactors. It is concluded that no economic advantage can be gained unless both uranium and plutonium are recycled and only if the reprocessing cost remains below $366/kg. A value based on initial substitution method has also been calculated for plutonium having different concentrations of fissile and fertile isotopes. It has been estimated that under the self-generated recycle option, the neutronic worth of recycled plutonium is reduced to ∼70% of the worth of no-recycle plutonium in 3 to 4 recycles and decreases very slowly after that.
