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Education, Training & Workforce Development
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.
Meeting Spotlight
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Latest News
Taking shape: Fusion energy ecosystems built with public-private partnerships
It’s possible to describe fusion in simple terms: heat and squeeze small atoms to get abundant clean energy. But there’s nothing simple about getting fusion ready for the grid.
Private developers, national lab and university researchers, suppliers, and end users working toward that goal are developing a range of complex technologies to reach fusion temperatures and pressures, confounded by science and technology gaps linked to plasma behavior; materials, diagnostics, and electronics for extreme environments; fuel cycle sustainability; and economics.
Nirmal Kumar Ray, Tushar Roy, Shefali Bajpai, Tarun Patel, Yogesh Kashyap, Mayank Shukla, Amar Sinha
Nuclear Technology | Volume 197 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 110-115
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT16-71
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The online reactivity monitoring of accelerator-driven systems is a crucial issue in reactor control and monitoring. The area-ratio method is one of the techniques for measuring the reactivity of subcritical systems using a pulsed neutron source. This technique has been used to measure reactivity at different locations in the subcritical assembly BRAHMMA developed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India. Since the reactivity measured by the area-ratio method is spatially dependent on the detector location, the Bell-Glasstone correction factor was used to correct the measured reactivity.