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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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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.
Alireza Haghighat, Anthony J. Baratta
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 2 | May 1989 | Pages 127-135
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34235
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The adjoint gamma transport theory method is used to analyze the postaccident gamma detector data from the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor lower head. It is concluded that there are two layers of materials at position L-11 of the TMI-2 reactor lower head. The lower layer contains predominantly nonfuel materials and the upper layer contains predominantly fuel. It is also concluded that 137Cs, 137mBa, 60Co, and 154Eu have the highest contribution to the detector signal. Finally, it is shown that the detector field of view is very small; hence, further evidence is needed to generalize these results to the remainder of the TMI-2 lower head.
