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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
  • 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?
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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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Question about nuclear engineering programs
  • zheng89120
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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
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Uncovering the Truth about Anti-Tsunami Walls in Fukushima
  • 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?
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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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Gas Field Detectors: Explaining Electron-Balance-Compensation & Chamber Types
  • 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 Using Reflective Materials?
  • Neitrino
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Can a Simple Cold Fusion Reactor Save Our Dying Planet?
  • bj97872
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Station Blackout: Q&A on Causes and Effects
  • matt222
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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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Can Water Flow Between Plates Shield Radiation Without Pressure Build-Up?
  • Berner
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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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Quick Question Regarding the cost of Nuclear Reprocessing
  • middlj
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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?
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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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Discover Dalton G. Barroso's 'The Physics of Nuclear Explosives' in English
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What is the term for an object with limited access and classified information?
  • Jack8rkin
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What is the new title of Reynolds' book on fast breeder reactors?
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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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Understanding the "Bank" 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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Where Can Beginners Find Simple Geant4 Program Examples?
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Effect of continuous refueling on decay heat
  • 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
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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.
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What Are Bonner Balls? | Neutron Energy Measurement
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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
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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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Is the Fission-Fragment Rocket the Future of High-Speed Space 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 anyone ?
  • 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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Help choosing Nuclear Engineering Classes?
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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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Can proton bombardment create cracking in materials?
  • PolywellGuy
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Touching weps grade uranium/plutonium
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