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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.”
R. L. Macklin, R. W. Ingle, J. Halperin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 71 | Number 2 | August 1979 | Pages 205-208
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20412
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The efficiency of a 0.5-mm-thick 6Li glass scintillation monitor was determined above the “1/v” region by comparison with the counting rate of a ten-plate 235U fission ionization chamber in a neutron beam from the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator. The chief difference in derived 6Li(n,α) cross sections from the ENDF/B-V evaluation is a slightly greater width (∼8%) of the prominent resonance peaking near 240 keV and a higher cross section in the wings. The steep rise in efficiency from 3500 to 5000 keV is attributed primarily to the 16O(n, α) reaction.
