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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.”
J. M. Kontoleon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 73 | Number 1 | January 1980 | Pages 84-86
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A18711
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The readiness of supervised protective systems for nuclear reactors is analyzed by the use of a four-state Markov process. The supervisions are short and reveal the capability of the system to initiate the protection action. When this capability—defined as the probability of initiating the protection action—is found to be below an acceptable level, the reactor is shut down. The analysis interrelates the probability level of readiness with the desired readiness of the protection system and its rate of supervision.