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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.”
Shunsuke Uchida, Masao Kitamura, Makoto Kukuchi, Hideo Yusa, Katsumi Ohsumi, Yasunori Matsushima
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 1 | January 1979 | Pages 78-85
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A21288
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An empirical formula is proposed to estimate the shutdown dose rates around the primary cooling system of boiling water reactors. The formula is characterized by defining the average activation time of 60Co, which is proportional to the iron feed rate into the reactor. The constants of the formula are determined by quantitatively evaluating the static balances of corrosion products in the primary coolant on the basis of measured results from the Shimane Nuclear Power Station of Chugoku Electric Power Company. The effects of four radiation reduction procedures on the shutdown dose rate are evaluated using the proposed formula. It is demonstrated that the oxygen injection method is the most effective procedure to reduce the dose rate (to ∼¼). Further reduction (to ∼1/50) can be achieved by a combination of the four procedures.
