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What are the benefits of using fusion power over fission power?
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Help Needed for Modeling Hybrid Reactor Geometry in MCNPX
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Genie 2000 to Ortec's Maestro file converter - wanted
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Fusion with Nutcracker: Is it Possible?
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Chernobyl Contributing factors towards Chernobyl accident
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Nano Fusion? Micro Fusion? Fusion Learning Source?
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Why am I getting a fatal error in MCNP with xsdir missing cross-section tables?
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Is PRISM a better alternative to fusion?
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Nuclear Direct Electricity Conversion
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How much heat can radionuclides in HLNW generate?
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Possible fusion power plants of the future
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Creating electricity utilzing water particles in a vacuum
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Idea for Aqueous Homogeneous Reactor
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Nuclear Fusion Idea: Using Magnetic Fields
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Thorium Doubling Time in Fast Reactors
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Can ITER and Molten Salt Thorium Reactors Revolutionize Fusion Power?
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Need Help with Solving Point Kinetic Equation for One group
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Using the Makxsf code to produce a library
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Looking for suggestions with FRAPCON
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Fukushima Critiques of Fukushima Thyroid-Cancer Study
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How to solve volumetric heat production formula
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Can a Piston Engine Harvest Fusion Energy?
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Ideas merging nuclear science & renewable energy technology
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Improving space nuclear reactors
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How easy is it to ionize Nitrogen or oxygen with beta rays?
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Can plutonium be used in small reactors for ships and other applications?
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Which MSE Minor Concentration is Best for an NE Major?
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Solving the 10 Particle Loss Problem After MCNP5 Run
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Mcnpx fatal error in continue run
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Alternate fuel for TriAlpha Fusion Reactor Design?
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Of Lost Neutrons Within Reactors
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What are the risks of fusion and fission power compared to each other?
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Simulating Heavy Nuclei Reactions with Software: A Beginner's Guide
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Transatomic - Molten Salt Reactor (from Question about LFTR?)
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Hot Channel Analysis of Small PWR core
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Can Nuclear Reactors Serve as Peaker Plants?
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How is fusion technology progressing in 2021?
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Radiation Damage In metals from Gamma rays
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Helium 3 breeding in fusion reactors
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How can Carbon-11 be created in a Cyclotron?
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Looking through NRC regulations on acquiring Am241
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What is the most promising gen 4 or 5 design?
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Approximate mass of special alloys in a nuclear reactor?
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Why are startup sources typically not used in BWRs?
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Are There Any High-Quality Nuclear Control Simulators Available?
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Why do some nuclear power plants have smoke stacks?
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Questions about the state of nuclear power in the U.S.
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Can Lasers Used for Building Molecules Initiate Nuclear Fusion?
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What causes current decay in plasma collisions?
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Gamma spectrometry: Calibration using X-ray emissions
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How many Fusion Power Plants to power humanity?
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Photonuclear activation of ground
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Can Genie 2000 Collect and Save Data Every 10 Minutes?
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Is Structural Integrity Inc the best nuclear plant services?
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Nuclear fusion using miniature optical particle accelerator?
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Computational Methods for Reactor Physics (Core Simulation)
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Nuclear energy in USA: why only 19%
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Hold plasma into one spot with magnetic field?
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Is My Idea Valid? Nuclear Fusion Power
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Equation for flux in reflected slab reactor
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Understanding Gamma Ray Energy Spectra: Smoothing Methods and Algorithms
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EM2 Reactor Design: Facts, Pros & Cons
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Thermal Hydraulics: Solving a PWR Problem
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Can a Reusable Nuclear Pulse Propelled Craft Be Made?
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Calculating Linear Power in Axial Layers from AFF & RFF
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Enthelpy rise hot channel factor and Radial form factor
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My Theoretical Fusion Reactor- Looking For Feedback
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Minimal film boiling temperature (Core reflooding)
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Function of bias resistor in semiconductor detector
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AP600/1000 Sump: IRWST, RPV, & LOCA Coolant Collection
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Question about Resonance Cross Sections
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Shippingport incore instrumentation
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Plasma instabilities in fusion reactors
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Nuclear data libraries in ACE format for MCNP5
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Good Textbook for Nuclear science?
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Estimating Waste Heat Rejected from PWRs
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What Are Effective Neutron Moderators in Nuclear Reactors?
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What Is the Typical Energy Efficiency of a Neutron Source?
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Transferring Liquid Helium to Another Container
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What Are the Fusion Temperatures and Masses of Tritium for Thermonuclear Fusion?
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Is half-life inversely related to the radiation dosage of an element?
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Where Can I Find Detailed Information About the Manufacturers of Belgian RPVs?
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Thorium Fission: Overcoming Hurdles to Power
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Control Rod Materials: List & Compounds Explained
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D-shape cross-section of plasma in fusion reactors
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What do you call Generation of electricity using waste heat
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MCNP5 vs MCNPX: What's the Difference?
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How to calculate the absorption rate density?
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Disposition of Spent Fuel - Separation option
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Two atoms of an element with a half life of ten years
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Thermal Hydraulic Calculations using NS
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Why can't we use nuclear waste in nuclear reactors?
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Is magnifying thermal power density possible with decay heat
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What is the specific activity of the air inside the sealed warehouse?
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Fast Reactors and Fast Breeder Reactors
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Fukushima Have they determined where the sunken cores are at Fukushima?
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Separative Work Unit: Derivation from Entropy
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Shielding simulation and nuclide vector
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Questions About LFTR - Uranium 233 & Gamma Rays
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Civilian Nuclear Engineer at Naval Shipyard
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