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NEI chief executive highlights “unlimited potential” for nuclear in state of the industry address
Korsnick
In the Nuclear Energy Institute’s annual State of the Nuclear Energy Industry report, NEI president and CEO and Maria Korsnick expressed optimism about the nuclear industry and she issued a call to action.
Her address was part of NEI’s Nuclear Energy Policy forum. The forum, being held in Washington, D.C., on May 20 and May 21, brings together industry leaders, policy stakeholders, and clean energy experts to discuss nuclear advocacy. Korsnick’s remarks focused on the private capital flowing into the industry, progress on regulatory reform and new nuclear technology, and how the U.S. is trying to take the lead on the global nuclear stage.
“We are here at an unprecedented time in our industry history,” Korsnick said. “I’m proud to say that the nuclear industry has a future of unlimited potential.”
Claudio Pescatore, Albert J. Machiels
Nuclear Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 297-300
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32857
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When leaching is controlled by a diffusion process, leach test results are particularly simple to interpret when test specimens approximate semi-infinite media. For spherical and cylindrical leach test samples, a criterion relating the test duration T, the specimen radius R, and the effective bulk diffusion coefficient D, to the desired degree of concurrence to the semiinfinite geometry behavior P, is shown to be given by: From the proposed criterion, it is concluded that, for glass waste forms, the semi-infinite geometry approximation is met by most test samples except possibly for finely crushed material