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Penning ion source operating principle
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FREEMAN ION SOURCE Design and Optimization for Increased Beam Density
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Why aren't jet pumps used as main coolant pumps in PWRs?
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Finding power change due to prompt jump
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K-40 Gamma Ray Branching Ratio: 10.67%
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Understanding the Role of Fuel Rods in a BWR - Explained Simply
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How can you use MCNP to do time-dependent reactor calculations?
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Nuclear Engineers Working in Plasma or Ion Propulsion
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Nuclear engineering grad school advice and future
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Extracting thermal neutron cross-sections from ENDF libraries?
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The time for reactor shutdown to refuel
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Any other incidents/accidents like this ?
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Non-Steam Based Magnetic Generator?
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Why ITER is a Useless Investment: The Truth about Tritium and Tokamaks
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If you were a medical physicist?
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Can EPROMs Be Effective UV Light Detectors?
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How can a Wilson cloud chamber be used to detect ionizing radiation?
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Is a Nuclear Engineering Degree Necessary for Graduate School?
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How to calculate critical atom density of a slab reactor?
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Wims-d5 (4) program needed. (Winfrith Improved Multigroup Scheme)
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Scope of PhD for a Mathemacian in Nuclear Engineering
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How does cooling work in a nuclear power plant?
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Calculating Pressure Drop in Two-Phase Flow
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Fukushima Could Solar Flares Trigger 700 Nuclear Meltdowns?
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US Navy Nuclear Program (Propulsion)
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Understanding the Different Modes of Potassium-40 Decay
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Questions about homemade particle accelerators
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Want community feedback on the CrossFire Fusion Reactor
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Basic Nuclear Fusion question on Binding energy
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AECL CANDU Reactor Devision SOLD
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Will the new ITER fusion reactor actually work?
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Brightness of Radioluminescense?
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What temperature does molten corium burn at?
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Query About Website: Blast Simulation Effects
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Questions about nuclear energy and nuclear waste.
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New Nuclear Educational Website
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How Do You Calculate Radiation Doses from Radioisotopes in mSv/h?
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Are Nodal Methods More Accurate or Just Simplified Solutions?
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Is There a More Efficient Way to Generate Electricity from Nuclear Energy?
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Problems associated with ex-core detectors ?
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How to transfer designed capacity to estimate production ?
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Can You Safely Handle Alpha Radiation? The Dangers of Unprotected Exposure
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Computational Physics and Advanced Computing in Nuclear Engineering
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NE B.S. vs. NE and CHEM E joint major
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What Are the Free Alternatives to Nucleonica.net?
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What Are the Key Mysteries in Plasma Physics?
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Thermal-hydraulic codes for cores and thermal-hydraulic codes for systems
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What is the Doppler coefficient and how does it affect wave frequency?
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How can I calculate view factor using MCNP for radiation heat transfer?
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The dynamic heat transfer in tube wall
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Summer project ideas? Possibly a cyclotron?
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One group neutron diffusion calculation
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What Does Imp:n=0 Mean in MCNP and How Does it Affect Tally Results?
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Experience with converting HWR fueled with NU to LEU?
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Advice for up and coming nuclear engineers
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Chemical Engineering B.S to Nuke Eng M.S?
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Producing Uranium for Peaceful vs Weapon Use: Explained
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Any concerns over recent choices of NRC Chairpeople
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Getting a job in Nuclear Engineering
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Detailed control room schematics?
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Is there any other Nuclear Engineering forum?
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Best Linux OS to install/run MCNP with MPI or MPICH
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Where can I buy a nuclear power plant section plan?
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Where Can I Find Serious Resources on Building a Neutron Producing Fusor Device?
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Feasibility of a Nuclear-Powered Locomotive
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What are the sources of neutrons in starting up a nuclear reactor?
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Relation of atomic and mass enrichment?
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Control of coolant temperature in a nuclear reactor
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Optimization of Core Loading Patterns
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Nuclear waste - is it possible to use it all via fast reactors?
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UK Plutonium Problem: Fast Reactor or MOx Plant?
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What happens when two EM waves collide on matter?
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What is measured in a fast reactor for power calculation : fast neutron flux or
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Graphite Moderator Explained: Carbon's Atomic Structure & Neutron Moderation
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I am a beginner user of MCNP and is still learning how to use it. When
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Help with MCNP5 Output Analysis
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Questions about fast reactors and nuclear waste
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Discriminators in circuits for Neutron Detection
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Information on Teller–Ulam hydrogen bomb design
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Internship in nuclear engineering for a foreign student
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Extracting Uranium from seawater
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Welcome to the PWR 1000MWe SBO TD AFW Q&A
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Any Tips for Coupling Neutronic and Thermalhydraulic Codes?
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Is a Career in Energy Consulting Realistic for Nuclear Engineers?
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How is Japan generating electricity
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Best graduate programs for GEN IV reactor design
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Scientists See Solution to Critical Barrier to Fusion
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What Factors Limit the Burn-Up of RBMK Reactor Fuel?
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Fukushima Fukushima: spent fuel pools & Hiroaki Koide
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How Can U-238 Cross Section Be Accurately Modeled in the Resonance Region?
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What level hazmat suit should be worn while tending to Uranium-238
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Grid or Generator failure - Why cant you stay online?
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How much nuclear fuel is in a nuclear sub?
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U233 immediate fission products ?
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How can I combine a business major with a minor in nuclear engineering?
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Question about nuclear engineering programs
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Incident at the Penly NPP in France
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Tabulated absorption cross sections.
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How Does Temperature Affect the Thermal Conductivity of UO2?
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Indiana Jones and nuking the fridge survival
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