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What Factors Limit the Burn-Up of RBMK Reactor Fuel?

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Fukushima Assessing Dr. Koide's claims about Fukushima Daiichi spent fuel pool risks

  • plusik
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How Can U-238 Cross Section Be Accurately Modeled in the Resonance Region?

  • Nucengable
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What level hazmat suit should be worn while tending to Uranium-238

  • sean888
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Grid or Generator failure - Why cant you stay online?

  • Bignose
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How much nuclear fuel is in a nuclear sub?

  • pcvrx560
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U233 immediate fission products ?

  • Anuj06
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How can I combine a business major with a minor in nuclear engineering?

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Incident at the Penly NPP in France

  • etudiant
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Tabulated absorption cross sections.

  • Fusiontron
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How Does Temperature Affect the Thermal Conductivity of UO2?

  • Nucengable
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Indiana Jones and nuking the fridge survival

  • mauricem
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Obstacles to fusion energy for civilian purposes

  • bobsmith76
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Fukushima The geological issues of the Fukushima Daiichi

  • ~kujala~
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How radioactive is nuclear reactor waste?

  • cragwolf
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Thermal hydraulic design of nuclear reactor core

  • Nucengable
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Identifying the seawall at Fukushima Daiichi

  • Joe Neubarth
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What is the feasability of a Neutron Piston?

  • Mortagnan
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The ionization chamber as a capacitor

  • DragonPetter
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What's the Best Term for Damaged Nuclear Fuel Handling?

  • Jack8rkin
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What happens if the pressure in a pressurizer exceeds 15MPa?

  • matt222
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Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.

  • Nucengable
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Where Can I Learn About Neutron Flux in Finite Mediums?

  • theCandyman
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Has BWR Fuel Development Increased RIA Risk During Nuclear Heating?

  • rmattila
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Hafnium neutron Absorber [Nuclear reactor design]

  • Nucengable
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Hi every body, i'm working and calculating the keff, and total

  • tiepngh
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What is electron-balance-compensation in gamma ray exposure measurement?

  • Nucengable
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Belt and Suspenders thread - what safety upgrades should older BWRs get?

  • zapperzero
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Secondary water condition entering the SG

  • wulianlian
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Californium(Cf)-252 shielding design

  • Nucengable
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Fukushima Fukushima and the dangers of going to Japan

  • MGZ07
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What is the difference between Nuclear Fission and Fusion?

  • DrPosh
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Can gamma radiation be focused with reflective materials?

  • Neitrino
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Can a Simple Cold Fusion Reactor Save Our Dying Planet?

  • bj97872
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Can Ferrofluids Be Used in Tokamak or Spheromak Fusion Devices?

  • sanman
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Introduction of nuclear reactor physics summer 2012

  • savana
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Large early release frequency LERF

  • matt222
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Is Computer Science Integral to the Nuclear Industry?

  • vaironl
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What are the potential risks of radiation exposure from dental x-rays?

  • weezilla
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Thoughts on nuclear power and disasters [long, rant/tangenty]

  • HowardVAgnew
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Neutron induced Swelling tutorials in ANSYS

  • bhaskarhebbar
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Factoring Fuel generation is nuclear energy still a viable solution

  • koab1mjr
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Virginia US Earthquake - Nuclear Plant

  • QuantumPion
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Nuclear Power Plant Spent Fuel Types

  • average guy
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Thorium alternative to nuclear fuel

  • encorp
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The ratio of Pu238 and O2 in Plutonium dioxide?

  • hermtm2
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Principle of Zr radiation resistance

  • wulianlian
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Fukushima Are US Nuclear Power Plants Prepared for Earthquakes?

  • Astronuc
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Elastic scattering of neutrons with hydrogen

  • sm.malkapur
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Why is alpha and beta radiation measured in Sievert?

  • cockpitvisit
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Japan Earthquake: nuclear plants - Daini (Plant 2)

  • clancy688
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US states using the concept of IDR?

  • sky8710
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Effect of Solar Storms on the Grid and Nuke Plants?

  • docneil88
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What is the new title of Reynolds' book on fast breeder reactors?

  • zarnuc
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Future of Nuclear Industry in Canada

  • doublemint
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Fukushima Why is Fukushima nuclear crisis so threatening?

  • petergreat
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The Subject of Iranian Nuclear Program (yes, physics related)

  • Square1
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What does "bank" mean in RCCA bank?

  • Jack8rkin
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What Is the New Name of the US Nuclear Research Institute?

  • average guy
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Byron Nuclear Gen Station Backup Cooling Pumps

  • swl
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Roadblocks to burning Solid Thorium Fuel

  • koab1mjr
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Simple Geant4 program examples with walkthroughs for beginners

  • aznsaiyan1029
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Decay heat in 3000 MWth reactor with batch vs continuous refueling

  • wasija
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Fukushima What are these streaks in this Fukushima endoscope video

  • omoplata
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Is there a free version of MCNP visual editor or similar?

  • Alexe
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Ongoing Cleanup at Hanford Nuclear Waste Site

  • davejjj
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Can WIMS-D5 be run on Windows XP without the source code?

  • libertad
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Choosing the Correct Term for Measuring Energy Generation in MW h

  • Jack8rkin
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What does it take to work at ITER?

  • Fusiontron
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Is there a thorium breeder reactor in the USA's Future?

  • leprechaun0
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Particle accelerator (Where to get the glass tube?)

  • Nussi
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Recent publications on plasma turbulence.

  • Fusiontron
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What are Bonner balls and how do they measure neutron energy?

  • DragonPetter
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Can Radioactive Material Be Recycled?

  • Arctic Fox
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How to avoid electronic equipments getting destroyed from 'Nuclear EMP'?

  • pairofstrings
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Fukushima Debunked: 14,000 Fukushima Deaths in U.S.

  • SpunkyMonkey
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Example of WIMS: Web-based Information Management System

  • khalid03ma
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Triton Depletion Code for SCALE: Solving Reactor Core Activity Issues

  • vifteovn
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What Are the Economic Challenges of Nuclear Power and LED Street Lighting?

  • aquitaine
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Passive mechanical safety: thermal sense rods.

  • Dmytry
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How viable is the fission-fragment rocket for interplanetary travel?

  • cjackson
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Which factors are important for plutonium production?

  • vifteovn
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The Volume of the reactor and its criticality

  • Nucengable
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Collecting links to public technical descriptions of NPPs

  • rmattila
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India and Thorium reactors progress

  • ensabah6
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Travelling wave reactor feasibility and neutron economy

  • vanesch
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Is Fusion Practical for Spacecraft?

  • cjackson
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Is 85Kr from nuclear fuel rods really a significant risk to human health?

  • Enthalpy
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Questions on reactors and VASIMR

  • seamo_k
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Best nuclear engineering electives for industry employment

  • StudioSaturn
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Iodine-131 detected in Europe, source unknown

  • SteveElbows
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Air Cooling Reactor: Max Wattage for Sensible Heatsink

  • aquitaine
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Explosion at Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility

  • Bodge
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Chicago Pile 1 physical/technical details

  • Tabasco Sauce
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