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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.”
Mark D. Hoover, Michael D. Allen, Arthur F. Eidson, Allen G. Harmsen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1184-1188
Beryllium Technology | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39928
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Beryllium particles generated in several industrial and research activities were characterized. The purpose of this investigation was to select appropriate aerosols for experiments designed to study the potential health hazards from using beryllium in fusion reactor systems. Aerosols of beryllium metal and beryllium oxide were obtained from an industrial machining operation, from laboratory studies using an electron beam and a laser beam, and from a research fusion device. Samples of stock beryllium metal and beryllium oxide powders were also examined. Respirable size particles were found in all cases. Beryllium particles from powder metallurgy and particles generated from machining beryllium metal were irregular in shape, typical of comminution processes. Particles produced at subatmospheric pressures in the electron beam and fusion devices were also irregular in shape and may have resulted from sputtering of beryllium by the plasma or the electron beam. Particles formed by laser vaporization at atmospheric pressure were branched-chain aggregates with individual particles appearing crystalline in shape.
