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The objectives of MSTD are: promote the advancement of materials science in Nuclear Science Technology; support the multidisciplines which constitute it; encourage research by providing a forum for the presentation, exchange, and documentation of relevant information; promote the interaction and communication among its members; and recognize and reward its members for significant contributions to the field of materials science in nuclear technology.
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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.
Maurizio Bottoni, Burkhardt Dorr, Christoph Homann, Franz Huber, Karl Mattes, F. W. Peppler, Dankward Struwe
Nuclear Technology | Volume 89 | Number 1 | January 1990 | Pages 56-82
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34359
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In the framework of the liquid-metal fast breeder reactor safety analysis program, out-of-pile sodium boiling experiments have been run at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe in a 37-pin bundle simulating a fast reactor subassembly. Three representative runs are analyzed in detail in terms of experimental evaluation and numerical simulation. The latter is performed with the three-dimensional, two-phase flow computer code BACCHUS-3D/TP, which describes coolant behavior in bundle geometry. The comparison between computed and experimental results has helped in correlating data from different instruments, thus allowing deeper insight into the details of the boiling behavior. Experimental data also provided a valuable code verification. By modifying the drift-flux model, the code validity range has been enlarged.