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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
Standards Program
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.
Jean Mégy, Robert Harold Allardice, Klaus Ebert, Jean-Marie Morelle, Paolo Venditti
Nuclear Technology | Volume 88 | Number 3 | December 1989 | Pages 283-289
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34310
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The European experience with the fast breeder reactor (FBR) fuel cycle covers >20 yr of work, and considerable experience with fuel fabrication has been accumulated. The existing facilities in Europe, with minor adaptations, are adequate to manufacture all the fuel required for European FBRs up to the end of this century. The feasibility of FBR fuel reprocessing has been widely demonstrated in European facilities at significant scale. Research and development is proceeding on all aspects of reprocessing and the two European pilot plants (Dounreay and Marcoule) are invaluable tools for supporting the design of an industrial-scale reprocessing plant.
