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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.”
W. P. Poenitz, L. R. Fawcett, Jr., D. L. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 3 | July 1981 | Pages 239-247
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-1
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The capture cross section of 238U was measured using the activation technique and 235U(n, f) and 197Au(n, γ) as reference cross sections. Capture events were measured by detection of two prominent gamma-ray transitions in the decay of the 239U daughter nuclide, 239Np, employing a high-resolution Ge(Li) detector. The system was calibrated with the absolutely calibrated alpha-particle emitter, 243Am, which decays to 239Np. Cross-section measurements were carried out at thermal neutron energy and in the neutron energy range from 30 keV to 3 MeV. Emphasis in the higher keV range was on absolute values between 0.14 keV and 1 MeV where the 238U(n, γ) cross section and its ratio to 235U(n, f) are not very sensitive to energy scale uncertainties, and the 238U(n, f) cross section is small. Background from fission products was found to restrict the accuracy of the measured data at energies 1.5 MeV.
