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Chernobyl Actual, current dose rate levels near Chernobyl.

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Fukushima Radiation Contamination Thread re Fukushima

  • Joe Neubarth
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Fukushima Will Fukushima Eventually Be Classified as a Level 7 Event Like Chernobyl?

  • M. Bachmeier
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Contain radioactive fallout in soil

  • rosec168
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Fukushima Fukushima: Building the Dike, Filling Water, Solution in 5-6 Years

  • Heating.e
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Site Engineering at Sea Side Nuclear Power Plants.

  • Joe Neubarth
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Setting up nuclear plants far away from human populations

  • wasteofo2
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Photo showing decimated reactor building troubles me

  • FishmanGeertz
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Radioactive materials irrational fears

  • roy2008
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What is the Thermal Conductivity of Graphite in Molten Salt Reactors?

  • mscudder3
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X-Ray Peak Energy: What Determines It?

  • terryphi
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Pumping liquid rad waste to ocean vs land

  • Homer Simpson
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Comparison of thermonuclear and antimatter explosions of equal yield

  • FtlIsAwesome
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Power from both fusion and fission?

  • Jonnyb42
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What Affects the Half Life of Caesium?

  • GUS
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How long until molten nuclear fuel at Fukashima cools and solidifies?

  • FishmanGeertz
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Japan Radiation months following Bombing in WWII

  • HollyD
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Question regarding Actvity and conversion to Gray etc

  • |Fred
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Is there a way to replace nuclear power with a (big) hydrogen fuel cell

  • baywax
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Spent fuel pool cooling and consequences in Japanese reactor crisis

  • GUS
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Books on throttling orifice plate design

  • chengqi
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Will a faraday cage stop gamma rays?

  • indio007
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Unit Converter: Bq/cu.cm to Bq/L

  • tzu149
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Why does a control rod work in a nuclear reactor?

  • treddie
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A practical question from a resident in Tokyo

  • britinjapan
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Nuclear Engineering Radiation Risks?

  • Legendofdeep
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How to set up the balance equation

  • matt222
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How can I accurately calculate the cooling effect of an AGR fuel pin?

  • Freddy_uk
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Fukushima Does Fukushima change anything?

  • Ken Natton
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Moderator to fuel ratio and under-moderation in different lattices

  • ulriksvensson
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Outlook of Nuclear Engineering in the U.S.A.?

  • D4V1D
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Nuclear reactor physics text recommendation

  • MaverickMenzies
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Oxide Measurement of a fuel element.

  • M98Ranger
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Fukushima Fukushima plant - should I leave Japan?

  • stundmullett
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Can alternating electric field directions contain ions in a fusor?

  • Drakkith
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Why not use fission product decay heat to generate electricity

  • maxverywell
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Why isn't the cooling system power-independent?

  • Passiday
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Is a criticality event possible in the Japan nuclear crisis?

  • sadasiva
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Effect of Earthquake on Newer Reactors

  • mhs25
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Japan Radioactivity Spreading to West Coast of US

  • sadasiva
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Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools not dry in 4?

  • javadave
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There must be a trick to pumping water into a reactor (I’ll explain)

  • thenewmans
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Quick and dirty fix for a leaking plant

  • Li18nxBoy
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Is there a certain material that absorbs X-Rays so that the X-Rays don't escape

  • DAnthony.Fisc
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Can radiation from Japan's nuclear crisis reach US coastal areas?

  • myth_kill
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Why do fuel rods continue heating after the reactor is shut down?

  • jmnew51
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Irradiate PtCl2 in a reactor core

  • Yolz
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Detonating the world's entire nuclear arsenal at once

  • FtlIsAwesome
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Where did the expansion for particle accelerators come from?

  • steve_rb
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Chernoble article on As It Happens

  • eugenet
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Brayton Cycle with Supercritical CO2

  • sanman
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What to include in a PIC code for edge plasma near tokamak walls?

  • LuisVela
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Beta or Alpha emitter nuclear fuel cycle?

  • Stanley514
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Fusion via colliding beams: event rates and particle loss

  • AndyUrquijo
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Hi,I want to know about SIMULATE code. how can I get its

  • chivasorn
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What happens to older nuclear weapons when they are upgraded?

  • rogerl
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Does a 2mm tritium ball heat from its own radioactive decay?

  • qraal
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Is Transmuting Nuclear Waste a Viable Solution?

  • Dynamos
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ADSR Thorium in UK: Is It a Viable Gen IV Solution?

  • mcgi5sr2
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Finding MCNP 5 documentation and accessing LANL resources

  • theCandyman
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Can MCNPX Perform Time Dependent Calculations?

  • chivasorn
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Temperature in MCNP - Using Library ENDF7 for Research Reactor

  • chivasorn
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What is a Supercritical Water Reactor?

  • chivasorn
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Obtaining Temperature-Dependent MCNP Cross Sections Without NJOY

  • shireojan
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MCNP output file interpretation

  • kir
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Calculating Group Constants for FA with MCNP

  • chivasorn
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Cell Definition: Improve Compute Performance?

  • mnikph
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MCNP: SRCTP file with KCODE card

  • neutrino45
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Can Someone explain Why we integrate over 4[tex]\pi[/tex]? What allows

  • candice_84
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Why Is Research on Liquid Fuels for Nuclear Power Limited?

  • koab1mjr
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Thermo-Acoustic Power Conversion

  • sanman
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Why not just collide particles for fusion?

  • chhitiz
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Nuclear fusion and the end of energy problems claim

  • Villhelm
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Dearsy every time i post a thread i do not find it in the

  • Saif al-dean
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College Concerns: What Should I Expect?

  • Azraa
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Cascade Tube Particle Accelerator

  • fatality314
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Can a Photomultiplier be Calibrated for Extremely Low Light Levels?

  • MereA.
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Why Is A Unimolecular Reaction Analogous to Decay

  • terryphi
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Math/physics in nuclear engineering?

  • creepypasta13
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Looking to build an impressive project for my college application

  • guss
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What factors determine the length of fuel cycles in nuclear reactors?

  • tony.almeda
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Calculating Atom Density of UO2-ThO2 Fuel

  • tony.almeda
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Can Beta Decay Power an LED Indefinitely?

  • wil3
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Solving Square Box Reactor Question: Flux General Equation

  • matt222
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Semi-empirical mass formula and liquid drop model

  • matt222
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Is MCNP free for Pcs with windows xp?How i can get it?

  • saifadin
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Definition and tasks of a radiation safety specialist

  • aznsaiyan1029
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What are the costs associated with nuclear plant downtime?

  • Vivi127
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I'm in grade 12 and I want to get into nuclear physics.

  • niralxxx
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How to get the scattered dose from concrete using MCNP5?

  • DF19
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How does the chain reaction start in a BWR reactor?

  • Trinity10
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