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Which subfields of nuclear engineering offer the most diverse career options?

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Online courses or textbooks on fusion power?

  • Fedari
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San Onofre steam generator tubes leaking - why?

  • jensjakob
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What Are Common Thermodynamic Issues in Pressurizers?

  • ms.shafeie
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How do control rods absorb neutrons and what happens inside atoms in reactors?

  • Kehsibashok
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Free online course in Nuclear Science and Engineering on Coursera

  • Dundeephysics
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Status of NDCX-II heavy ion accelerator

  • Kidphysics
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How Does Thermodynamics Apply in Nuclear Reactors?

  • ms.shafeie
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Best and most recent book for ICF?

  • Kidphysics
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Does Fission rate increase with increasing temperature?

  • jerich1000
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Products and energy from Iron 56 fission

  • jerich1000
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*Yawn* What is taking generation 4 reactors so long to fruition?

  • Kidphysics
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Is a Molten Uranium Fast Breeder Reactor Feasible?

  • nikkkom
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Any articles on ICF fuel pellet?

  • Kidphysics
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Can 7Li Replace Na in Fast Breeder Reactors?

  • Efrain
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Direct vs Indirect drive for fusion

  • Kidphysics
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Should I specialize in nuclear fusion or fission engineering?

  • xholicwriter
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Fukushima How does a new leak at Fukushima endanger civilians?

  • xholicwriter
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How Many People Could Instantly Kill an Unshielded Nuclear Reactor?

  • Numeriprimi
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How to extract energy from a beam of relativistic electrons in fusion

  • Kidphysics
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The potential future of Heavy Ion Fusion?

  • Kidphysics
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Generation IV reactor prototypes and current status

  • Kidphysics
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How exactly does a LWR/MSR start

  • Kidphysics
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Conversion vs breeding. Thermal and fast reactors.

  • Snipez
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MCNP Input of Voxel Arrays and Their Universes

  • njm
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Stuff at Iranian nuclear facility

  • MCTHOUSAND
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Error: Bad Trouble in IMCN - Unexpected EOF

  • NuclearEng12
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MSc nuclear project combining nuclear engineering and electronics

  • Nuclear_chita
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What Are the Different Methods to Define a Plate in MCNP Code?

  • ms.shafeie
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Why Do VVER Reactors Use Horizontal Steam Generators?

  • vietbilk
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Explanation of some nuclear terms.

  • xholicwriter
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Cameras inside Dounreay Reactor

  • MalcolmB
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A code for (alpha,gamma) reaction

  • rsaldideh
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Fluid's boiling point dependence as function of pressure

  • Stephan_doc
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Is this source credible or biased?

  • xholicwriter
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Is Our Fear of Radiation Based on Sound Science?

  • daveb
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The implications and issues behind high-level nuclear waste management

  • member 471389
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Current Nuclear Engineer Regulations/Debates

  • xholicwriter
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My grandmother has Plutonium in her garden.

  • member 471389
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How is hydrogen generated and managed in Hanford's double-shell tanks?

  • CFDFEAGURU
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Joint Major (with Nuclear Engineering)

  • xholicwriter
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Detecting hydrogen and helium in a lattice fusion reactor

  • marshallmeyer1
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Decay power and spent fuel pond

  • Stephan_doc
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Contractors for LHC: Learn About CERN Turnarounds

  • fonz
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Control Average Temperature of Nuclear Power Plant

  • schumi2124
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What is an Optically Coupled Reactor?

  • newclearwintr
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New and upcoming ideas in nuclear engineering?

  • CherryTrooper
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Fallout yield from a nuclear accident at sea?

  • xpell
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Photoatomic and photonuclear reactions

  • Stephan_doc
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They used to use uranium glaze to color pottery and other objects

  • Kutt
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Problems with dense plasma focus

  • Stanley514
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Computing Neutron Source Strength - Your Advice Welcome

  • Stephan_doc
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Potentially serious situation averted at Davis-Besse NPP

  • Kutt
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Dangers of Living Above a Dental Office?

  • brm629
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Could nuclear power plants on Mars supply fuel for Earth?

  • Square1
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Fukushima Have they located the melted fuel at Fukushima?

  • Kutt
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Do 2 Kilowatt Nuclear Reactor Still Exist

  • average guy
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Why is Capture Gamma-ray Energy Included in Fission Energy?

  • Stephan_doc
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Can neutral beam accelerators achieve practical fusion with deuterium?

  • Stanley514
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Absorbed Radioactivity: Safe Handling of Irradiated Metals

  • Busybee
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Approach To Critical - 1/M and Penultimate Method

  • dss91
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Nuc.Engineer (MS/PhD) salary range in Europe

  • European81
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Thorium Fuel Cycle Reaction Initiation

  • DLHill
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Chernobyl Chernobyl Project: Learn Info, Find Radiation Levels

  • winnie_t
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Calculation of differential and integral rod worths

  • ulriksvensson
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Why did Plymouth Pilgrim power plant shut down

  • Naty1
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Can Thorium Outperform Uranium in Energy Production Per Kilogram?

  • DLHill
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Max. concentration of radioactive particles in water

  • winnie_t
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Capturing radioactive particles in air

  • winnie_t
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Nuclear reactor neutron absorber

  • Crazymechanic
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In breeder reactors, do the plutonium-rich rods have to be processed?

  • CCWilson
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International Nuclear Engineering Internships

  • acusick
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How Do Burnup and Consumption Rate Differ in Nuclear Engineering?

  • terryphi
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What is the Geometric and Material Buckling in Diffusion Equation?

  • ChangBroot
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How to learn MCNP basics

  • ms.shafeie
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Eta (Reproduction Factor) Impact of Fuel Leg Change

  • ms.shafeie
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Can one purchase depleted uranium?

  • Aaronvan
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Nuclear waste treatment technologies and resources

  • zhenzhenzwc
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About nuclear fuel cycle simulation software

  • googlefans
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BNCT(Boron Neutron Capture Therapy)

  • ms.shafeie
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Solving "Fatal Error" in MCNPX Input Code

  • NuclearEng12
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What exactly do you study in reactor physics?

  • Hercuflea
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What driver circuit is needed for a Langmuir probe?

  • david allen
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Why Aren't Nuclear Power Plants Built Underground?

  • vemvare
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Monte Carlo neutron slab model

  • The_shadow
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Is there such thing as plasma fusion if so how does it work

  • Ben.meyer
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Would gallium-tin coolant work for reactors?

  • snorkack
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How Can MCNP Be Used in Industrial Radiography of Steel?

  • Deckard-6
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Why can't any missile carry a nuclear warhead?

  • liorde
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Fukushima Why did Unit 2 release 90% of Fukushima's emissions while Units 1 and 3 contained more?

  • clancy688
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Questions of LMFBR control system

  • law&theorem
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Isfahan UCF Trouble: Confirmed or Denied?

  • zapperzero
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100MW reactor must produce a 110MW

  • EinsteinII
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Standard Review Plans and Associated Review Standards

  • Astronuc
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What is the relationship between arc voltage and current in ion sources?

  • david allen
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Measuring current in accelerator

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