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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. B. Ryves
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 3 | December 1979 | Pages 357-359
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20391
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In reactor decommissioning calculations, the production of 127-yr 108mAg from trace amounts of silver in the stainless-steel structure of the reactor is very significant. The thermal (2200-ms−1)-neutron capture cross section of 107Ag for the production of metastable 108mAg was measured as 0.366 ± 0.065 b, where the uncertainty is nearly all due to the half-life. The ratios of the resonance integrals to the thermal-neutron capture cross sections for the formation of 108mAg and 110mAg were also determined.
