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A university of the New Breanswick Professor says that nuclear power will be required to meet the growing demand of the province in the coming decades, and a full nuclear engineering degree program in the institution can ease in this way.
UNB director William Cook said, “When we begin to build new generating assets, and (are) trying to have a capacity of current-generation, we need new workers, which we have operated.” Atomic power research center,
The new atomic laboratory of the university can be an important part of such a program.
Advanced Nuclear Reactors Laboratory – Now a month in its operation – has been working in the Frederichtan campus of UNB for eight years. Space equipment is filled with graduate students and scientists working in the field, to measure how the material interacts in the environment following those in nuclear reactors.
William Cook, director of the UNB’s Center for Nuclear Energy Research, says that the province needs a full nuclear engineer degree program to meet its future energy demands.
Cook and his team oversee the work, which aims to understand certain decline mechanisms that may be in reactors, mainly rust. The goal is to identify what the system can fail over time, and can work to prevent such failures.
“For the last five or six years, since small modular reactors have become a very hot theme, we are also reducing our activities to help (them) to help the Advanced Reactor Sector,” Cook said.
“This is why this laboratory is actually about all – to be able to support the generation IV reactor system.”
Programs are required to bring in new workers
Cook said that the university currently has about eight to 10 nuclear engineering courses prasad as options can be taken while working towards a chemical or mechanical engineering degree. He wants to see a full nuclear engineering program at the university, he is sure to meet the needs of the workforce.
New Breanswick is one of the two Canadian provinces with nuclear reactors, the other is Ontario. The average age of an atomic worker in Canada is currently 55.
Cook cited the long -standing relationship with the players of the nuclear industry at the UNB Center, which includes the New Breanswick Point Lepru Nuclear Production Station, saying that the time is correct “to expand our opportunities.”
A big reason: New Breanswick’s power requirement is expected to double in the coming decades. They believe that more nuclear power generation will be required along with a new generation of workers.
For a full degree nuclear engineering program, New Breanswick University will need experts and professors to teach new courses and support research and development. It will also require upper administration of UNB to be on board.
The provincial government has recently shown great interest in nuclear projects.
Can come as nuclear expansion One potential second power plant in point lapru,
Provincial and federal governments have also invested in two new BRARSV companies to manufacture small modular reactors on the point lapro site by 2030. However, both Moltex and Arc Clean Energy are running in challenges. That time is not expected to be completed.
Moltex Energy Canada says that the trouble in its UK -origin company has slowed down its work on small modular reactors, or SMRS.
Meanwhile, in response to a call by Prime Minister Mark Carney, the province of New Breanswick for the “nation-building project” includes the province that has become an important part of a scheme called Eastern Energy Partnership.
Premier Susan Holt has stated that the province is taking advantage of expertise to find out “expertise at the New Breanswick University and others to detect” Canada’s “Energy Super Power”.
Cook said, “Now the abilities that we have with new and existing laboratories allow us to support all kinds of various reactor techniques because we go about these nation-building projects.”
Michel Robichod, Executive Director of the Atlantic Center for Energy, said that she would prefer to watch a full nuclear engineering program at the university, which in view of the industry’s ability to play in other fields such as cyber security and green manufacturing.
“These are all other components that are going to be really important because we develop and transition a cleaner energy towards the future,” he said.
Atomic expansion also sets fire
But there are critics of nuclear power. The province’s Green Party leader, David Kon, has first criticized the objectives of the province for nuclear expansion and questioned the idea of ​​being a leader in the field.
He believes that universities should discover all types of research without any obstruction – and criticize the connection of the industry that the university and its nuclear research center have developed.
“The university decided years ago that they are providing consultation services to the industry. And you have to surprise you, is it a good fit for our universities?” Koon said.
Reacting to him, Cook said that the professors of the university are usually “world-compound experts in their areas”, whose guidance is equally useful for governments and industry.
“While we have a mandate to teach in class, our research activities provide extensive training for students and we take advantage of our expertise to give consultation and advice with the industry,” he said.
What to do with the atomic fuel spent is also a fork issue, which should be stored in safe and safe systems for several decades after use.
“Advanced nuclear reactors and generation IV systems have the ability to really shorten the timeline that the fuel spent needs to be collected by actively using energy materials in prolonged products,” Cook said.
“So some studies we have done here, we will see adaptation methods to use the energy material.”
