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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.
H. A. Larson, I. A. Engen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 18 | Number 2 | May 1973 | Pages 194-197
Technical Note | A Review of Plutonium Utilization in Thermal Reactors / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31288
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Investigation of the dynamic character of EBR-II has been done with rod-drop and rotary rod-oscillator experiments. Both of these experiments provide linear feedback transfer functions in the complex domain; the rod-oscillator experiment gives this information directly, whereas modeling procedures must be done for the rod-drop experiment. Comparisons of results show good qualitative agreement. Quantitatively, the rod-drop experiment appears to predict less feedback than the rod-oscillator experiment.