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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.”
Sun Wong, Kawei Chen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 1 | January 1981 | Pages 92-106
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21342
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The analysis of two-dimensional fluid flow and heat transfer problems in a finite rod bundle system can be effectively handled by superpositioning the effects of all cylindrical rods present. This method is not limited to symmetrical rod arrangements but can be applied to rods with arbitrary dimensions and orientations. The solution method is illustrated by solving the Poisson and the Helmholtz equations. Numerical results are presented for the solution of the Helmholtz equation in a circular flow channel containing a center rod and a ring with six peripheral rods and with Dirichlet boundary conditions specified on the wall surfaces.