Loss of knowledge at Universities and National Labs
caused by decreasing number of:
- Research reactors
- Research cyclotrons (useful energy range and particle species for NC)
- Hot cells
- Radiation measurement facilities
- Availabititly of radioactive tracers
- Costs for maintainance and radiation protection
- Regulations
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What kind of people are the National Labs looking for?
- Nuclear material scientists who can characterize and predict material properties, synthesize, and process nuclear stockpile materials
- Nuclear/Radiochemists to measure elemental and isotopic composition
- Radiation scientists capable of measuring complex radiation signatures and simulating radiation transport through 3D projects