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Countering the nuclear workforce shortage narrative
James Chamberlain, director of the Nuclear, Utilities, and Energy Sector at Rullion, has declared that the nuclear industry will not have workforce challenges going forward. “It’s time to challenge the scarcity narrative,” he wrote in a recent online article. “Nuclear isn't short of talent; it’s short of imagination in how it attracts, trains, and supports the workforce of the future.”
R. T. Perry, T. A. Parish
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1057-1062
Fusion Breeder | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39912
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Fusion-fission systems in which the tritium production rate in the fusion reactor is variable and in which tritium can be bred in the fission reactors are evaluated. The calculational model determines the feasible power production ratios among the system components and an economic figure of merit for feasible (fuel self-sufficient) systems. Allowance for system growth is accomplished with the use of a doubling time parameter. Results are computed for systems with LWR power reactors, modest and advanced tritium production reactors, and both high and low fuel production capabilities for the fusion reactor.
