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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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.”
T. Duracz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 74 | Number 1 | April 1980 | Pages 61-64
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A18948
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Assumptions and procedures basic to the methods of the homogenization of uniform lattices, based on the small buckling approximation, are collected and discussed. A new definition of the diffusion coefficient is proposed.
