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Find the reaction rate of a star purely of Hydrogen at temperature of 15MK, density of 150gm/cm^3, most of the reactions take place at R0=0.25R. Each reaction released energy of 25MeV
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This is the part I'm lacking. I've got the number of protons...
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In a reactor, we're making 56Mn by inducing thermal neutron capture.
2g sample of 55Mn is put into the reactor which has a flux of thermal neutrons of 3E13 neutrons/cm^2*s
Sample is in the reactor for 8 hours and then removed.
a. Calculate the amount and activity of...
Hello, I am asked to plot the activity of 137Cs in a 1Gw fission reactor over time of 100 years if the reactor is active from 0-20 years and shuts down at 20 years.
So here are the facts:
The reactor capacity is 1Gw
Reactor is active for the first 20 years then shuts down
At shutdown...
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Hello, I'm working on an experiment that involves a Michelson interferometer and doppler effect.
Here is the description of the apparatus.
Michelson interferometer is set up with one moving arm and microwave is transmitted and received.
With the beam splitter splitting...