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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?

  • ElliotSmith
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Separative Work Unit: Derivation from Entropy

  • Victor2096
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Shielding simulation and nuclide vector

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Questions About LFTR - Uranium 233 & Gamma Rays

  • Nerdydude101
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Civilian Nuclear Engineer at Naval Shipyard

  • Mercury
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Nuclear Fusion News from LLNL/NIF

  • Morbius
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Hanford Washington VIT (Vitrification) Plant - Anything new?

  • CFDFEAGURU
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We *already built* the light water breeder?

  • nikkkom
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Can You Create a Radiation Safety Poster for First Time Users?

  • Flojo75
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South-Ukraine NPP: Info. on Operation, Radiological Situation

  • a.ua.
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How do I calculate cascade volume in a steel alloy under ion irradiation?

  • nukapprentice
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PAX Nuclear Reactor Simulator Question

  • G. Rizzo
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Mcnp error the new source has overrun the old source

  • gsyou
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Uranium & Diamonds: Heat Transfer in Nuclear Reactors

  • John d Marano
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What color clothing is safest during a nuclear explosion?

  • dav2008
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Neutron Capture in Hydrogen Fusion Reactor

  • trainman2001
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Isolation of protons and alpha particle

  • acegikmoqsuwy
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Calculating Neutron Flux using SN Method

  • NukeLion
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What Is Resonance Self-Shielding and Power Share in Nuclear Reactors?

  • Syed Alam
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Reactor Design: WIMS10 & PANTHER - Queries

  • Syed Alam
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How Can Nuclear Plants Improve Emergency Core Cooling Systems?

  • Muti
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Infinite neutron plane source in the vicinity of slab

  • aser
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Anyone knows how to execute burnup process in MCNP5?

  • dongge
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Paris law cofficients of 20MnMoNi55 steel or SA508 steel

  • sonika chauhan
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South Ukraine - Nuclear Plant Accident 3.Dez 2014

  • FleaFlyFloh
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D2O Moderator/Coolant: Is Solidification Possible?

  • Reza FMZ
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Can a Teen Build a Fusion Reactor with a Budget Power Supply?

  • FuturePhysicist
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Is fast ignition fusion a viable approach for achieving fusion energy?

  • Stanley514
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Lockheed SkunkWorks Fusion plan

  • jimgraber
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Concurrent decay calculations in an operating reactor

  • Moniz_not_Ernie
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How Does Fast Non Leakage Probability Impact Nuclear Reactor Safety?

  • bharath ram
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Medical physics: undergraduate approach

  • cseal
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Farnsworth fusor modified for neutron production?

  • Gamba93
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Atom or weight fraction in MOX fuel

  • bkoz
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Optoelectric nuclear batteries with tritium?

  • Gamba93
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Making gold by nuclear reactions -- what efficiency?

  • lpetrich
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Finding UO2 Enrichment Value for MCNP5 Input File

  • AlbeFerS
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Can Magnetic Fields Control Neutron Emission in Compact Neutron Generators?

  • EinsteinKreuz
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Should I go to Europe to do MCF (PhD)

  • Hercuflea
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Solving MCNP6 Burn Card Problem

  • kslim
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Calculate ##\xi## for Neutron Slowing Down in Moderators

  • rpp
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ANSYS Software for Simulating Fluid Phase Change in Steam Generators

  • law&theorem
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Equation of radionuclide production

  • flied
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Results of steam bubbles in the reactor

  • David Carroll
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Cleaning up radioactive or mine waste

  • jadair1
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India's thorium reactor delayed

  • jimgraber
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How Can Students Access SCDAP/RELAP Source Code?

  • Toppler
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Get rid of transuranians in Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors?

  • kiskrof
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Uncovering Half-Life Data for Odd Isotopes: A Search for Fission Products

  • Moniz_not_Ernie
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Slow or fast neutrons in LFTRs (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors)

  • kiskrof
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Are Small-Scale Fusion Reactors the Future of Electric Power?

  • sparkle_pony
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Apps of nuclear physics in medicine

  • anju
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Building an Atom Smasher: Cost, Materials, and Design

  • Simon = Mc2
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Question pertaining to the Power Yields of Nuclear Fusion Reactors

  • EverGreen1231
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Plasma fusion vs nuclear fusion

  • shushi_boi
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Level After Decay of Radioactive Isotope

  • dlbi
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Geiger Counter Measurement: Sieverts/Hour?

  • kiskrof
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NPP Working 75%: Limitations & Calculation Changes?

  • libertad
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Calculating exposure / dose from cross sections

  • TauDay
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Would it be possible to build a model tokamak

  • Warpspeed13
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Two rucksacks of U238 - a myth?

  • Atomised
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Nuclear weapons for anti-missile defense

  • lavinia
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Problems with Fast Ignition fusion?

  • tripleA
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What type of fusion reaction generates the most neutrons?

  • Warpspeed13
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Current Measurement of Incident Proton ?

  • flied
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Question about fast neutron leakage calculations

  • Warpspeed13
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How to Resolve MCNP Depletion Code Syntax Errors?

  • shakystew
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Plasmoid Contamination in a Dense Plasma Focus

  • Warpspeed13
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Relap thermodynamic property error

  • Vnt666Skr
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Peaking factor and power profile

  • Vnt666Skr
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RELAP fuel rod-coolant response modeling

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Find specific reaction cross section in an ENDF file

  • flied
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What " Yield " means in TENDL ?

  • flied
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Is there any free burnup code

  • googlefans
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Idea for an internal scanner using natural radioactivity

  • nuclearhead
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What happens if you send a electron beam in a plasma?

  • Earl of Plasma
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One Dimensional Slab Heat Transfer Taylor Expansion in Glasstone

  • terryphi
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Can I Pass Security Clearance with Marijuana Arrest?

  • TheNE
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Looking for research which encompasses both plasmas and fission.

  • Fusiontron
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Feasibility of a home built beta cell or similar nuclear battery?

  • JuggleFive
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Fukushima Anti-nuclear Fukushima Pseudoscience Debunked

  • SpunkyMonkey
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Can Nuclear Fusion Become a Viable Green Energy Source?

  • PhysicsGente
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Looking for Experimental Nuclear Physicists and Nuclear Engineers

  • zephramcochran
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Activity of Isotope: mCi, mR, Rem Value & Distance

  • exradioa
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Questions on Neutralizing Radioactive Materials

  • zephramcochran
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Cold shutdown that doesn't require coolant circulation?

  • HowlerMonkey
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Safety Injection during Main Steam Line Break

  • mudweez0009
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How to model transient conditions?

  • shakystew
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Where Can I Find Resources on Nuclear Research Reactors?

  • Stephan_doc
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What Are the Potential Dangers of Nuclear Melt and Its After Effects?

  • sandon
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Chernobyl Should Chernobyl have been cleaned?

  • snorkack
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Nuclear energy academia or industry

  • epislon58
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Importance of fusion stage in thermonuclear weapon

  • delsaber8
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