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Argonne: Where AI research meets education and training
Last September, in the Chicago suburb of Lemont, Ill., Argonne National Laboratory hosted its first AI STEM Education Summit. More than 180 educators from high schools, community colleges, and universities; STEM administrators; and experts in various disciplines convened at “One Ecosystem, Many Pathways–Building an AI-Ready STEM Workforce” to discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping STEM-related industries, including the implications for the nuclear engineering classroom and workforce.
U. Benedict, G. Giacchetti, Hj. Matzke, K. Richter, C. Sari, H. E. Schmidt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | August 1977 | Pages 154-161
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31858
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Carbide-based fuels simulating high burnup were prepared by addition of inactive fission product elements. They contained fission product phases of the UMoC2 and U2RUC2 type, and a rare-earth oxide phase. The thermal conductivity of the material is within the range observed for carbide-based fuels free of fission products. The diffusion of plutonium was considerably enhanced by the addition of fission products. The solid fission product swelling rate of a carbide-based fuel was estimated to be 0.5% per at.% burnup.