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This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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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.
Scott A. Comes, Paul J. Turinsky
Nuclear Technology | Volume 83 | Number 1 | October 1988 | Pages 31-48
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34173
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A methodology has been developed for determining the family of near-optimum fuel management schemes that minimize the levelized fuel cycle costs of a light water reactor over a multicycle planning horizon. Feed batch enrichments and sizes, burned batches to reinsert, and burnable poison loadings are determined for each cycle in the planning horizon. Flexibility in the methodology includes the capability to assess the economic benefits of various partially burned batch reload strategies as well as the effects of using split feed enrichments and enrichment palettes. Constraint limitations are imposed on feed enrichments, discharge burnups, moderator temperature coefficient, and cycle energy requirements. The methodology, incorporated into a code named OCEON, uses a zero-dimensional reactor physics model and a rapid fuel cycle cost routine to select minimum cost cycling schemes that satisfy all constraints. These candidate schemes are then examined with a two-dimensional nodal reactor physics model to more accurately calculate feed enrichments, batch burnups, and fuel cycle costs. The use of Monte Carlo integer programming to direct the optimization process allows for the determination of a family of low cost schemes from which the fuel manager can select the strategy that best fits his needs.