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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.”
F. S. Alsmiller, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., T. A. Gabriel, R. A. Lillie, J. Barish
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 2 | October 1981 | Pages 147-161
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A27403
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A fission channel has been added to the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model of nuclear reactions so that this model can be used to obtain the differential particle production data that are needed to study the transport of medium-energy nucleons and pions through fissionable material. The earlier work of Hahn and Bertini on the incorporation of fission evaporation competition into the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model has been retained and the statistical model of fission has been utilized to predict particle production from the fission process. Approximate empirically derived kinetic energies and deformation energies are used in the statistical model. The calculated number of emitted neutrons and residual nuclei distributions is in reasonable agreement with experimental data, but the number of emitted neutrons at the higher incident nucleon energies 500 MeV is sensitive to the level density parameter used.
