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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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Report: New York state adding 1 GW of nuclear to fleet
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has instructed the state’s public electric utility to add at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear by building a large-scale nuclear plant or a collection of smaller modular reactors, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Johanna Oxstrand, Rachael Hill, Katya Le Blanc (INL)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 285-292
In recent years, multiple nuclear utilities have deployed electronic work management solutions to replace the traditional paper-based processes. There are several benefits of electronic work management solutions compared to paper processes, such as a more streamlined review and approval process. However, the utilities also hoped the new solution would support workers in conducting their jobs more efficiently, correctly, and safely. Unfortunately, the industry is now realizing that the existing solutions are failing to achieve the expected improvements in overall work execution.
The electronic work management solutions present the work instructions as an electronic copy (i.e., a portable document format [PDF]) of the paper instruction. The PDF versions used in these electronic work management solutions have some ability for data input, notes, and mark-up, but they do not provide many additional benefits compared to using paper. Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) investigated going beyond smart PDFs from a human factors perspective. In close collaboration with multiple utilities, they investigated how to present instruction content and how to design interaction with the instructions to improve the workers’ performance and efficiency. Their solution is a dynamic presentation of the instructions that guides the worker through the correct path. A well-designed solution has the opportunity to vastly reduce the risk of human errors in the field. This paper will describe, in detail, how the design concepts improve human performance.