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Which nations plan to build the most nuclear plants next decade?
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The need for reactor engineeers ?
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Water and Uranium-235 Reactivity in W88 Secondary: Safety Concerns Explained
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Geiger counter calibration question
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MOX (Plutonium-Uranium mixed Oxide) Nuclear Fuel
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Generating electricity from fusion
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Can fission be coupled to he-3 or H3 to reduce waste?
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Electricity Output of Gen 2 & Gen 3+ Reactors
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What to expect in a Reactor physics and engineering class
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How popular is PCTRAN in the industry?
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Uranium in Nuclear Reactors: Why Use It?
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When do we run out of uranium? How much is used per year?
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Nuclear Reactions: Fission & Fusion Explained
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How do I become a Nuclear Engineer? (Split from Canadian Engineering Thread)
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SCWR heat transfer deterioration phenomenon
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Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in the Upper Atmosphere
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Could an Earthquake Rip Open a Nuclear Powerplant?
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DOE judges IFR best reactor design
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Prospective Nuclear Engineering Career
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Benchmark of high temperature cross section libraries in MCNP
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Nuclear weapons active research program/new designs?
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Giant nuclear powered combustion engine
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Nuclear Reactor With No Moving Parts
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Using HELIOS Code for Preparing Macroscopic XS in PARCS
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Undergraduate Major for Career in Nuclear Fusion
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Could a tank or land vehicle be nuclear powered?
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Why Does Fission Chamber React to Neutron Fluxes Over Source Range?
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What are the cooling requirements for a gas core reactor?
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Photon Tracking Code: Calc New dx, dy, dz after 1st Scatter
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Nuclear reactor in zero gravity
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Focus Fusion is back in business
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Is Plasma Focus Fusion on the Verge of Success?
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Could nanomachines reduced turbulence?
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Could a full-scale thermonuclear war cause the extinction of the human species?
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Interested in a career, 5 questions about Nuclear Engineering.
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How is nuclear energy harnessed?
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How to become a nuclear engineer
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Proliferation risk of reactor grade plutonium
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Nuclear fission plasma reactor?
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Control Rod Worth: Power Dependency?
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How is high temperature reactor design different?
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Nuclear Engineering Lectures: Fundamentals and Beyond
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How Does the Tokamak Facilitate Nuclear Fusion?
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Sensitivity of Isotopic Separation Techniques
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Protecting Self from Gamma Source: Find Lead Thickness
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New Gen IV Nuclear Plants: Safety & Usefulness for Fuel Cells?
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Resources for deep understanding about nuclear fuel materials
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Questions about ANC and Transport Theory
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What happens to the Neutrons and Protons in a Tokamak reactor.
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Nuclear Power and Reactor Scale.
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Hello Matt,Is the Magnetohydrodynamics Book Worth Buying?
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What is the neutron source and energy used for BNCT and how is it made suitable?
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Nuclear Batteries: Engineers Converting Radioactive Decay to Power
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Making a Magnetic Sail: Challenges & Benefits
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W: Reprocessing and the IFR: Solving the Issue of Radioactive Waste?
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Optical (laser/maser) cooling of fusion products.
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Use Fusion to Zap Nuclear Waste
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Does working in a nuclear power plant cause cancer?
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Tokamak Fusion Requirements: Ideal Materials & Current
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Are small modular nuclear power plants the solution for remote locations?
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General Fusion Company: A New Take on Fusion Energy
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Is Building a Homemade Particle Accelerator Worth the Risk?
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Spread it over a large surface area?
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Pros & Cons of Being a Nuclear Engineer
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Question about neutron cross sections
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Durabilty of sealed radioactive samples
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Do you know any professors working on Accelerator-Driven Nuclear Reactors?
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Medical Isotope production - NRX reactor
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Can Magnetic Compression Revolutionize Nuclear Fusion Techniques?
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Light-water reactor and plutonium produce
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Fusion Propulsion for Spacecraft
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Is the future of fusion power in jeopardy?
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Babcock & Wilcox 125MW(e) reactor
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Integral Fast Reactor: Why Did Funding Stop?
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Free Neutron Decay: Is It True?
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Net Resources for Advanced Math in Nuclear Engineering
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Fuel Measurement: How PWR Nuclear Plants Calculate Fuel Amount
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Nuclear Excitation: Measurement & Laws
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Is the SSTAR Program Still Active?
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Power Choice for Offworld Refinery: Solar Thermal vs Nuclear
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Chernobyl More killed mining coal in Ukraine than killed by Chernobyl
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Can Very High Burnup Reactors Lower the Cost of Nuclear Energy?
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Radioactive Waste as a Power Source?
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Can Fusion Propulsion Be Optimized with Altered Magnetic Field Configurations?
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When Peer Review Fails NIF Debacle
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How essential is a PhD for working in reactor/system design?
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Graduate School in Nuclear Engineering - Can I Make the Switch?
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Imperial College London - Nuclear Engineering
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Nuclear Energy at Sea: Crew Precautions & Reactor Core Protection
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Is Nuclear Power the Future of Space Propulsion?
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Clarifying Geometric and Material Buckling
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Electron Screening: How It Affects Fusion Cross Section
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How Big Is the Step from a Fission Bomb to a Fusion Bomb?
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Safety Margins in PWRs: 10 CFR 50.46 & Beyond
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There is no such thing as Nuclear Waste
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High Temperature Reactor Fuel Elements
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X-ray Imaging with Anstegrom Wavelengths
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Bypass flow in a pebble bed reactor
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Barrier transparency and quantum tunnling
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Fission Explained: Neutron Force and Nuclear Isomers
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