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Operational safety is essential to everything that nuclear plants do. Reactor operators continue training throughout the life of their license, spending one week sharpening their skills in the classroom and the reactor simulator for every four or five weeks of work to prepare for any thing that needs attention at the plant. #NationalPreparednessMonth

Because the U.S. no longer conducts explosive nuclear tests, scientists are not exactly sure how aging warhead plutonium cores affect detonation. For more common parts, like the plastics and metals and wiring inside each detonator, there are also questions about how the years spent in warheads might affect their integrity. So workers at the nation’s nuclear labs and production sites spend a lot of time stressing and testing parts to make sure they’re safe. At the Energy Department’s Kansas City National Security Campus, where warheads are maintained and made, technicians put components through endless tests. #nuclearweapons #CBRN #CBRNE #WMD #CBRNEATLANTICBRIDGE #Technology #testing #nuclearsafety

Great Headline Guardian on Nuclear fission. https://lnkd.in/g8sMZtpR Fission is moving towards obsolescence at an accelerated pace, as it is "out of step, out of time, out of place," and merely a temporary industry globally. Commercial fusion electrical energy generation is a promising and innovative method of producing sustainable and clean energy. By 2028, Helion is expected to start producing electricity from its first fusion commercial power plant, which will provide electricity to Microsoft. The plant will produce at least 50 MWe after an initial ramp-up period. https://lnkd.in/gY9J3MQY If you want nuclear energy, opt for the cleaner and safer option of FUSION. Now see what news is happening in the Fusion industry in the world. https://lnkd.in/g9hMBD7a As fission trebles, fission fuel shortage in 100 or 80 years is increasingly real, as stated in recent UN documents and linked below. https://lnkd.in/gze5rwpr

The National Nuclear Strategic Plan for Skills and the Nuclear Skills Charter have set out how industry and the government plans to develop the jobs and skills needed for the nuclear weapons and power industries. Full story:

Things are getting started here at the IAEA international Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management and Human Resources Development!

The National Nuclear Strategic Plan for Skills and the Nuclear Skills Charter have set out how industry and the government plans to develop the jobs and skills needed for the nuclear weapons and power industries.

Interested in an overview of the Chief Nuclear Inspector's 2022/23 report on the nuclear industry? Watch our short video highlighting all the key points, including themes and priorities for the year ahead: https://lnkd.in/ew3Tacym

Great to see this scheme, both nuclear & engineering are areas which have provided #socialmobility in the past (while acknowledging they've not been so good on #gender) with many of the business leaders coming through apprenticeships.

Too many good points to recap. Exerpt Washington must restore the cultural relevance of nuclear deterrence. Americans lack a tragic sensibility that was more familiar to the generations that defeated fascism and then confronted Soviet communism. In the fraught period ahead, the nation might be tested in crises analogous to those of the early Cold War. It is well past time for a presidential address that explains the stakes at hand, and the irreplaceable role of nuclear deterrence in peacefully advancing American interests. But the words in such an address must be chosen carefully. Public discourse should avoid doom-laden scenarios and, instead, focus on the peaceful role played by the nation’s nuclear deterrent. Nuclear weapons are the bedrock of the U.S. defense posture, which preserves an international environment favorable to the American way of life. Washington would do well to avoid hysterics and instead emphasize how nuclear weapons underwrite the nation’s security. Otherwise, it will jeopardize the public’s support for American nuclear policy in the long run.

Kicking off the afternoon session, we've moved into a Q&A session, entitled 'The Workforce Challenge', to discuss questions of capacity and capability for Great Britain's nuclear industry. Sir Simon Bollom, Chair of the Nuclear Skills Taskforce and Michael Finnerty, our Director of Regulation - Operating Facilities Division, talk about how we start to influence a joined‑up and industry-wide approach to building and sustaining a resilient, capable workforce for the future. #ONRconf23