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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The newest era of workforce development at ANS
As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
Kazuya Ohgama, Taira Hazama, Hiroki Katagiri, Atsushi Takegoshi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 8 | August 2023 | Pages 1197-1214
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2197660
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For evaluating control rod (CR) interaction, CR worth values with and without the insertion of interaction CRs were measured in six CR interaction patterns by the continuous period method and the compensation method in the prototype fast breeder reactor Monju. The measured CR worth was evaluated in detail by conducting corrections, such as the thermal contraction of CR drive shafts, and compared with calculations to examine the reliability. The calculation-to-experiment values (C/Es) of examined CR worths with and without the interaction were 0.96 to 0.98 ± 0.03. The values of the measured CR interactions were obtained from those examined CR worth measurements as a change in target CR worth by the insertion of interaction CRs: 5.0 ± 0.6% to 10.1 ± 0.1%. The C/Es of the interaction in those cases were 0.78 to 0.93 within 5% to 27% uncertainty. Through this study, the consistency and reliability of the measurements and the calculations of the CR interaction were confirmed, and the measurements were judged useful.