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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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The roentgen (R, also röntgen) is a unit of measurement for exposure
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Resonance Self Shielding Correction Definition
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PWR Pressure Drop: Plenum to Plenum Pressure Drop
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Hazardous Radioactive Materials
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Was Fukushima Unit 3 a Nuclear Explosion?
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A fantastic invention or fantasy?
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Nondimentional Diffusion Equation
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Fukushima Fukushima, Japan – Constructing an Effective First Response
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Understanding Ionizing Chambers: Alpha, Beta & Gamma Radiation
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Was Helium ever found in fusion reactors?
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Atomic Mass of Tritium Deuterium - Caveman Logic
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How Does Zirconium React in High-Temperature Environments of Nuclear Reactors?
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Nuclear Waste - Not in my back yard
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Fukushima Water levels in Fukushima reactors?
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The Logic Behind Chernobyl: Control Rods and Moderators
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Nuclear Power Plant criticallity question?
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Is Nuclear Power More Efficient Than Coal in Energy Production?
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Noob questions regarding fusion and fission
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Adjoint flux for multi-group diffusion equation for criticality problem?
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Polywell 1st Quarter 2011 Results Up
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Earthquakes and mitigation of predictable damage?
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Fukushima Total Fukushima radiation releases compared to total core inventories
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Move over uranium here comes Thorium
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What is the Monte Carlo Method for Simulating Neutron Transport using MPI in C?
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Need help with solving nuclear power plant problem
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Nuclear Fusion_New Method_Patent Pending
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Axial xenon distribution in a PWR
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Nuclear Reactor In Ga. Shuts Down Abruptly
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How harmful is nuclear radiation? It depends on the dose received.
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Nuclear power in US - safety against unforeseen situations.
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Liquid Nitrogen Injection Underground Last Defense
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Are Heat Pipes Used in Nuclear Reactors for Heat Removal?
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Thermal Hydraulics: Connect with Experienced Researchers
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UPRATING Of Older US Nuclear Plants
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Heat Conduction with a nuclear source
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Non nuclear part of a nuclear power plant
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Do Japanese authorities need to cool before dismantle
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Burying Nuclear Waste: Is it Necessary?
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Fukushima Total fukushima I-131 release vs chernobyl, in curies
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Calculate total destruction OF NUCLEAR BOMB
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Questions about Fusion - Get Answers Here
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The Absolute Worst Nuclear Reactor Disaster
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Fukushima Underestimating the ongoing disaster at Fukushima vs Chernobyl?
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Radiation protection/ effects of radiation
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Heat released in neutron capture by boron
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Chernobyl Actual, current dose rate levels near Chernobyl.
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Fukushima Radiation Contamination Thread re Fukushima
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Fukushima Will Fukushima Eventually Be Classified as a Level 7 Event Like Chernobyl?
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Contain radioactive fallout in soil
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Fukushima Fukushima: Building the Dike, Filling Water, Solution in 5-6 Years
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Site Engineering at Sea Side Nuclear Power Plants.
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Setting up nuclear plants far away from human populations
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Photo showing decimated reactor building troubles me
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Radioactive materials irrational fears
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What is the Thermal Conductivity of Graphite in Molten Salt Reactors?
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X-Ray Peak Energy: What Determines It?
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Pumping liquid rad waste to ocean vs land
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Comparison of thermonuclear and antimatter explosions of equal yield
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