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ANS, UCOR sign MOU for workforce development program
The American Nuclear Society and United Cleanup Oak Ridge have signed a memorandum of understanding that establishes a framework for collaboration to advance ANS workforce training and certification programs serving the nuclear industry.
According to the document, UCOR will provide “operational insights and subject matter expertise to inform ANS’s professional development and credentialing offerings, including the Certified Nuclear Professional [CNP] program.” The collaboration will strengthen UCOR’s workforce development efforts while advancing ANS’s mission to sustain and expand the national nuclear workforce pipeline and capabilities.
R. L. Currie, P. B. Parks, J. L. Jarriel
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 4 | December 1971 | Pages 356-362
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30984
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Subcritical multiplication constants have been derived from static and pulsed measurements for arrays of large, hollow cylinders of uranium-aluminum alloy. The cylinders were of two types: 11.21-cm-i.d., 20.07-cm-o.d. bare 235U-Al alloy castings and 10.07-cm-i.d., 12.27-cm-o.d. Alclad “logs” extruded from the castings. The alloy was 9.985 wt% enriched uranium (92.2% 235U) in aluminum. These measurements extended previous benchmark experiments with small diameter rods of lower enrichment into the region of larger diameters and higher enrichments. The transport diffusion theory codes MGBS-TGAN overestimated the values of keff for the arrays tested by 7 to 12%. The more sophisticated Monte Carlo code KENO was more accurate, with errors less than 5%.