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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.
Rudolf H. Brogli, Claus A. Goetzmann, Bernhard J. Kuczera
Nuclear Technology | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 61-64
Technical Paper | Advanced Light Water Reactor / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A35548
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The light water high conversion reactor is aimed at the extension of standard pressurized water reactor technology toward better fuel utilization. This can be achieved by mechanical spectrum hardening via tightening the fuel rod lattice of the core. Its main merits will be a high conversion ratio, high discharge burnup, and long fuel cycles. The ongoing investigations in reactor physics, thermohydraulics, emergency core cooling, and fuel technology have shown so far that the basic design is feasible, but they have also indicated that it might, under certain circumstances, be advantageous to widen the lattice somewhat to increase safety margins, e.g., with respect to the void coefficient.