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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.
Hideki Takano, Kunio Kaneko, Hiroshi Akie, Yukio Ishiguro
Nuclear Technology | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1988 | Pages 250-262
Technical Paper | Advanced Light Water Reactor / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34049
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The resonance self-shielding effect of fission products on burnup characteristics has been investigated in high conversion light water reactors. Reactivity loss by burnup was considerably reduced by taking account of the self-shielding effects of fission products. The effect caused a difference of ∼0.6% for the multiplication factor at 50 GWd/tonne burnup and it contributed to a negative void reactivity. Furthermore, the mutual shielding effects of resonance overlapping among actinides and fission products have been examined and observed for several fission products. The effect of nuclear data uncertainties of fission products on the burnup reactivity change has been also examined by comparing the results obtained with four evaluated nuclear data files: JENDL-2, JEF-1, ENDF/B-IV, and -V. Fractional absorption rates for individual fission product nuclides were considerably scattered among these files. A significant difference between the reactivity changes calculated with JENDL-2 and ENDF/B-V was observed, while the discrepancy between those obtained with JENDL-2 and JEF-1 was small due to an accidental cancellation.
