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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.”
D. A. Niebruegge, E. L. Tolman, C. W. Solbrig
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 363-368
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27316
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Thus far, existing computer programs have been adequate to predict the behavior of the loss-of-fluid test facility (LOFT) non-nuclear loss-of-coolant experiments. The work presented here describes a predictive capability for modeling nuclear experiments to determine if the same fuel can be used in several experiments. This is analogous to determining if fuel may be reused after a pressurized water reactor loss-of-coolant accident. We are concerned here with discussing only best-estimate calculations for experimental predictions and not the conservative models used for licensing. It was found that an adequate analysis procedure could be established by modeling accurately the fuel stored energy before the experiment is initiated. The initial stored energy in the fuel was found to be the most important fuel rod parameter influencing the maximum cladding temperature obtained in the transient.