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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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Framatome signs contracts with Sizewell C
French nuclear developer Framatome is slated to deliver key equipment for Sizewell C Ltd.’s two large reactors planned for the United Kingdom’s Suffolk coast.
The agreement, reportedly worth multiple billions of euros, was announced this week and will involve Framatome from the design phase until commissioning. The company also agreed to a long-term fuel supply deal. Framatome is 80.5 percent owned by France’s EDF and 19.5 percent owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Eike Hohmann, Marlies Luszik-Bhadra, Helmut Schuhmacher, Burkhard Wiegel, Georg Fehrenbacher
Nuclear Technology | Volume 172 | Number 3 | December 2010 | Pages 273-277
Technical Paper | Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT10-A10935
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Recent developments in accelerator physics have led to new challenges for radiation protection dosimetry. As is well known, the ambient dose equivalent indicated by area monitors in high-energy neutron fields behind shielding is often unreliable. Therefore, it is desirable to measure the spectrum and to do "in-field" calibrations using the spectral information as reference. For this purpose, the PTB NEMUS (an extended-range Bonner sphere spectrometer) was modified with a new active thermal neutron detector based on silver activation capable of measuring in intense pulsed fields with high energies and fluence rates.