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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.
  • Joe Neubarth
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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
  • 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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Question about spent fuel rod cooling pools in Japàn reactor
  • GUS
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Want help about throttling oriface plate
  • 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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What Are the Design Flaws in Boiling Water vs. Pressurized Water Reactors?
  • e.coli
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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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Build a Fusor: Static Electric Field & Alt. Sides
  • Drakkith
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Fukushima Daiichi Reactors: Exploring a Controlled Meltdown
  • M. Bachmeier
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Fission Products: Harnessing Heat to Produce 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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Do wooden wall or window glass give good protection from penetrating radiation
  • e2718281
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Japan Nuclear Crisis: US Impact
  • myth_kill
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How Can I Safely Conduct Liquid Sodium Wicking Experiments in a Sealed Tube?
  • dpage
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Nuclear Fission Q&A: Japan Disaster & Fuel Rods
  • jmnew51
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Irradiate PtCl2 in a reactor core
  • Yolz
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Nuclear Operation: Understanding PT Limiting Curve & Radiation Effects
  • matt222
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Help me about: problem of Thermal Hydraulic
  • marlh
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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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Edge Plasma Physics: Key Considerations for PIC Codes & Simulations
  • LuisVela
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Beta or Alpha emitter nuclear fuel cycle?
  • Stanley514
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Groups & Studies about Fusion via Colliding Beams
  • AndyUrquijo
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Hi,I want to know about SIMULATE code. how can I get its
  • chivasorn
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Upgrading Nukes: The Fate of Older Versions Explained
  • rogerl
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Tritium Self-Heating: Betas, Neutrinos & Decay Energy
  • 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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MCNP 5 User Guide: Detailed Documentation & Authorization Info
  • 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
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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
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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 is My IMS Setup Failing to Detect TNT with a DC Corona Discharge Ion Source?
  • matlabma
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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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Why aren't more nuclear power plants using incineration for waste treatment?
  • FlyingEng
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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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U236 Fission: Q Value & Symmetric Fission to 118Ru
  • matt222
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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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Irradiating graphite taget coated with silicon-glue
  • CyrilM
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Chernobyl Is anyone else fascinated with the chernobyl disaster?
  • nuclear-boy
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