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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
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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.
Corinne Bangil, Gérard Gambier, Michel Soldevila
Nuclear Technology | Volume 84 | Number 3 | March 1989 | Pages 344-349
Technical Paper | Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Risk Management / Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34218
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Pressurized water reactor four-batch fuel management represents, in the present context, an economic optimum for the French standardized series of reactors. Plutonium recycling on an industrial scale has already started in France; therefore, it is essential to ascertain its compatibility with four-batch refueling requirements. In the survey considered, it is shown that a core refueled annually with 28 UO2 assemblies, having a 3.7% 235 U content and 12 mixed-oxide assemblies containing 6.5% plutonium, entirely satisfies safety criteria under normal operating conditions. A supplementary survey will be performed to assess its behavior under such accident conditions as steam line break and rod ejection.