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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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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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Virginia utility considers SMRs
Dominion Energy Virginia has issued a request for proposals from leading nuclear companies to study the feasibility of putting a small modular reactor at its North Anna nuclear power plant.
While the utility says it is not a commitment to build an SMR at the site, the RFP is “an important first step in evaluating the technology and the North Anna site to support Dominion Energy customers’ future energy needs consistent with the company’s most recent Integrated Resource Plan.”
Siegfried Jacobi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 91 | Number 2 | August 1990 | Pages 146-153
Technical Paper | Safety of Next Generation Power Reactor / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34424
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Possible plutonium contamination of the primary loop and potential cooling disturbances, both due to cladding breaches, result in two areas that need to be considered: (a) the behavior of defective fuel subassemblies transferred to in-vessel storage and (b) the occurrence of new defects in the cladding tubes at the end of service life. A response to the resulting requirement of cladding tube monitoring during in-vessel storage is given, and the following solution is proposed: If fuel subassemblies are stored in in-vessel drums, the defect can be temporarily exposed by rotating the drum and exposing the subassemblies to different levels of residual neutron radiation intensity. Fission products escaping during this process are measured by delayed neutron monitors, as applied in normal operation.