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Division Spotlight
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.
Meeting Spotlight
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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The IAEA targets seafood contaminants and plastic pollution in oceans
Oceans link all the continents of the world, and fish don’t respect boundary lines. So it’s fitting that a global organization—the International Atomic Energy Agency—is helping nations detect and monitor both plastic pollution and biotoxins in marine algae that can lead to outbreaks of contaminated seafood.
Erika Callagon La Plante, Yi-Hsuan Hsiao (UCLA), Isabella Pignatelli (Université de Lorraine), Aditya Kumar (Missouri Univ Sci Technol), N.M. Anoop Krishnan (India Inst of Technology), Tandre Oey (UCLA), Howard Dobbs (Univ of California, Santa Barbara), Yingtian Yu (UCLA), Bu Wang (Univ of Wisconsin, Madison), Narayanan Neithalath (Arizona State Univ), Kevin G. Field (ORNL), Jacob Israelachvili (Univ of California, Santa Barbara), Yann Le Pape (ORNL), Mathieu Bauchy, Gaurav Sant (UCLA)
Proceedings | 19th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems - Water Reactors | Boston, MA, August 18-22, 2019 | Pages 582-586