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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.
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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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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Hinkley Point C gets over $6 billion in financing from Apollo
U.S.-based private capital group Apollo Global has committed £4.5 billion ($6.13 billion) in financing to EDF Energy, primarily to support the U.K.’s Hinkley Point C station. The move addresses funding needs left unmet since China General Nuclear Power Corporation—which originally planned to pay for one-third of the project—exited in 2023 amid U.K. government efforts to reduce Chinese involvement.
Belal Almomani, Ahmad Ababneh, Muhammad Zubair
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 2 | February 2023 | Pages 214-227
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2133507
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
After the Three Mile Island Unit 2 accident, regulatory bodies were concerned about the safety measures in design and operation corresponding to the operator’s decisions and procedures for handling such off-normal transients. Several recommendations were proposed to analyze transients and accidents, improve and revise emergency operating procedures (EOPs), and conduct functional training. In this work, procedural paths were systematically studied to identify the problems in the diagnosis associated with a pilot-operated relief valve (PORV)–break loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) as well as to suggest new indications for improving the EOPs. Operational parameters during PORV-break LOCA and pipeline-break small-break LOCA were analyzed using a generic pressurized water reactor simulator to compare and justify the symptoms between these two events. It was found that suggesting further indications mainly in the reactor cooling system and containment symptoms may improve the diagnosis of a PORV-break LOCA from the pipeline-break small-break LOCA. This paper presents a practical approach to evaluating diagnostic procedures to better understand operator recovery actions corresponding to reactor system response in dealing with a PORV-break LOCA.