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Education, Training & Workforce Development
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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Vogtle-3 shuts down for valve issue
One of the new Vogtle units in Georgia was shut down unexpectedly on Monday last week for a valve issue that has since been investigated and repaired. According to multiple local news outlets, Georgia Power reported on July 17 that Unit 3 was back in service.
Southern Company spokesperson Jacob Hawkins confirmed that Vogtle-3 went off line at 9:25 p.m. local time on July 8 “due to lowering water levels in the steam generators caused by a valve issue on one of the three main feedwater pumps.”
Margit Fábián, Csaba Aracki (Centre for Energy Research)
Proceedings | 16th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWM 2017) | Charlotte, NC, April 9-13, 2017 | Pages 840-847
The incorporation of actinide and actinide surrogates in borosilicate matrix was studied with uranium, cerium and neodymium. This study was carried out on matrix glasses doped respectively by 10 and 30wt% UO? while CeO?, Nd?O? was used to chemically model the actinides in the matrix. The structure was studied by Neutron diffraction combined with Reverse Monte Carlo simulations. For all studied glasses, it was found that the basic network structure consists of tetrahedral SiO? units and trigonal BO? and tetrahedral BO? units, forming mixed [?]Si-O-[3], [4]B bond-linkages. The BO?/BO? ratio was also proved by NMR spectroscopy. From the first nearest neighbour distances of U-O, Ce-O, Nd-O atomic pairs and from the second nearest neighbor atomic pair correlations we found that uranium, cerium, neodymium ions are located in the borosilicate network.
