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What Materials Are Best for Shielding Alpha, Beta, and Neutron Particles?
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Cyclic Fusion Reactor. Passing through each other colliding beams.
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Is Oyster Creek Prepared for a Category 4 Hurricane?
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What if a nuclear power plant loses outside electricity?
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Accelerate He ions on to Thorium
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Designing an Antimatter Rocket - Questions for Help
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What is a lock-in amplifier with a forcing grid ?
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Can Westinghouse 3-loop PWRs Survive a Total Blackout?
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Silicon carbide fuel rod cladding for BWRs
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What is the difference between FSER and FSAR?
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Removing CH3I: Designing Containment Filtered Venting System EUF
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How to design a nuclear power plant reactor power control system ?
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Is MOX fuel a safer and more sustainable alternative to traditional fuel?
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Exploding Reactors? Does that even happen?
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Is quantum mechanics necessary for nuclear engineer?
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Questions about the Energy Catalyzer
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Net movement of plasma in tokamak
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Peacful Nuclear Explosions: Orion Project?
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Al Gore's Environmental Achievements: A Nobel-Worthy Legacy
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How to find information about energy density of HWR?
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Swede Arrested For Atom Smashing at Home
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Why don't control rods stop meltdown?
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Where Do Contributors Here Work? Nuclear Engineering Careers
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Home/neighborhood/town nuclear capability
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What is limiting fusion power production
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Why are there only limited modes of radioactivity?
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Who uses neutron moisture meters?
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Working as a NE in the States as a Canadian
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Information on X-rays and Gamma Rays
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Can a CMOS sensor be used as a Geiger nounter
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Could we create Nuclear fusion ?
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Is nuclear power still a viable energy source for the future?
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Fluid momentum and Natural circulation in Nuke reactors
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Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernoby
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What is Nuclear Engineering all about?
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New Nuclear Reactor Design: Desired Features & Goals
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Amount of mercury in the blood of people
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Geant4 Installation and Compilation Issue Troubleshooting Guide
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Understanding Criticality: Unpacking K, $, and C for Safe Reactor Operation"
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Comparing Results of MCNP vs Geant4 for Shielding Design
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So can i become nuclear engineer?
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Fukushima How will they end the Fukushima disaster?
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Nuclear Reactors: how you start the reaction?
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What does a nuclear meltdown look like?
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What is the Station Vent used for?
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Can Gamma Radiation Be Deflected by Matching Frequencies of Ionized Radiation?
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Why Are Certain Nuclei Fissionable with Slow Neutrons?
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How are control blades replaced in a nuclear reactor?
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Odd vs. Even number of Nucleons.
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Max Neutron Output from Fusion: Power Requirements & Comparisons
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Nuclear plant refueling and temporary workers
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What Are the Implications of 13 Neutron Beams Detected at Fukushima?
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Where are the missing nukes from the 90s now?
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How do hydrogen bombs create radioactive fallout particles?
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20 milicuries of iodine 131 in sieverts?
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IF I want to research breeder reactors, do I go for NucEng or Nuclear Physics?
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Declared Net Capacity in Mega Watts Electrical
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Shouldn't we disable Nuclear Reactors in California?
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Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste?
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How long will our Nuclear Fuel resources Last?
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Thorium salt reactors in emergencies
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Could Tungsten or Tantalum Replace Thorium in Nuclear Reactors?
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Nuclear Plant - Active Component (Valves)
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Fusion Energy is Dirty: Learn about Negative Implications
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How can I conduct a nuclear experiment without purchasing expensive equipment?
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Calculating Specific Activity of Encapsulated Radionuclides from Halflife
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Nuclear Fusion and Nuclear Fission, safety and efficiency
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Why aren't more breeder reactors being built?
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What Code Can Predict Neutron and Gamma Yields from an AmBe Source?
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Atomic/Nuclear Bombs in Space: Oxygen Required?
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How do I build a Glow Discharge Tube?
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June National Conference: Who's Attending Next Week?
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Radiation Detection: Hand-Held Device for Human Body
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Why Governments Chose Nuclear Bombs Over Hydrogen and Atom Bombs
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NPP Fire Codes: Containment Penetrations and Electrical Ducts Temperature Limits
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Fukushima Fukushima Unit Four: Details and Risks of the Hydrogen Explosion
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How did they shut down the TMI-2 reactor?
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I heard the ITER could achieve Q = 10, what about the engineering (actual) Q?
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Fukushima Has Fukushima Changed Your Position?
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Can a cyclotron be used for nuclear fusion
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Mission using Pratt and Whitney TRITON engine
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Isotopic Abundance: What is it and how does it affect nuclear processes?
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Could Nuclear Reactors Cause More Long-Term Contamination Than Nuclear Bombs?
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Quick question about neutron scattering and absorption cross sections
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Calculating Fission Product Density in a BWR Reactor
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Has anyone measured the light intensity given off in a fusion reactor?
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What Could a Fusion 'Breakeven' Reactor Look Like?
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Questions on nuclear power plant
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What is the difference in radiation dosage between digital and film x-rays?
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Elementary questions on biological shielding in nuclear submarines
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What not use a proportional relief valve?
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Nuclear pulse propulsion with low Z propellant?
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Fukushima Fukushima radiation detection and measurement
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Standards for qualifying mechanical equipment in NPPs
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What are Fission Recoil Fragments and How Are They Formed?
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Completely safe nuclear reactions?
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Physics Issues Investigation on Nuclear Fusion or Fission question help
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How to transform surface deposition in Bq/m^2 to dose equivalent rate in µS/year
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How does neutron absorption turn uranium into plutonium?
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Identifying Decay Heat Sources in Reactors Post-Trip
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