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How to Calculate C Parameter in FMn Card for MCNP Code

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Questions on synthesizing Fluorine 18

  • Strat-O
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Is a Minor in Nuclear Engineering Worth Pursuing for a Physics Major?

  • nlsherrill
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Is transitioning from chemical to nuclear engineering a good idea?

  • DL Mckinney
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Why can't water be used as coolant in fast reactors?

  • mohsenman
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Effectiveness of nuclear weapon in vacuum

  • PatentLawyer
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One group modified and Two group theory

  • koab1mjr
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How much CO2 for current US fission plants?

  • HarryWertM
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A question regarding synchrotron lightsources.

  • minerva
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Can Tokamak Miniaturization Lead to Portable Fusion Energy Solutions?

  • aquitaine
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Lightest Fissile Element/Isotope/Nuclide?

  • sanman
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What is decay width for radioactive isotopes?

  • LaPaqueta
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What are the top post graduate books for nuclear engineering?

  • Saif al-dean
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Nanomaterial Converts Radiation to Electricity

  • sanman
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Do you know any companies in my field in Europe or in Switzerland?

  • maria2010
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How can I make a particle accelerator?

  • heartless
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Is There a Safe Threshold for Ionizing Radiation?

  • Shukie
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Underwater Express power and propulsion

  • kgbgru
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What is a TerraPower reactor or 'traveling wave reactor'?

  • Orion1
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Does radioactive decay, not primordial heat, keep Earth's interior molten?

  • Antiphon
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GEM*STAR: Future of Green Energy Reactors?

  • sanman
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Get a Job at Nuclear Power Plant in France?

  • kendra42
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Need career guidance Nuclear Engineeringor?

  • paul143
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Hybrid fusion fission reactor prospects

  • ensabah6
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DUPIC fuel cycle: why PWR waste instead of BWR waste in CANDU?

  • oldsloguy
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Plant aging Steam Generator Corrosion

  • koab1mjr
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Could a Small Reactor Power a Large Lunar or Martian Rover?

  • slide_Rules
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Quick one about first steps in mathematical modelling of nuclear stuff

  • Azuma
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How much does nuclear power reduce CO2?

  • ensabah6
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Minimum Volume of a Hom., Bare Cylindrical Reactor

  • Uranium
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Harvesting Fission Fragment Energy with Magnetic Fields

  • sanman
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What Are the Future Prospects for Nuclear Engineers in India?

  • Anirudh B
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How does plasma lose energy by conduction in a tokamak?

  • joker_900
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Minimum critical mass with natural uranium

  • df001
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Fusion reactors: why is bigger better?

  • rabbit44
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Artificially Induced subcritical Heavy Ion fission

  • maxmc1027
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Why Isn't More Funding Allocated to Fusion Power Development?

  • James Leighe
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Career advice for nuclear engineering graduates

  • The Prince
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Corrections for the Introduction to Nuclear engineering by Lamarsh?

  • saifadin
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How Do You Calculate the Effective Dose from a Given Concentration?

  • Smed
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Maximum licensable core power rating

  • gmax137
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Do shielding materials get excited and start reactions?

  • aznsaiyan1029
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Where Can I Download MCNPX or MCNP5C for Free?

  • behzad2000
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Calculating Lifting Mechanism for Radioactive Fuel Element Removal Machine

  • netgear87
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Best books on neutron scattering and diffusion

  • saifadin
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Nuclear reaction leading to formation of C^14 ?

  • hermtm2
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How to get activity of 1g of radium 226?

  • hermtm2
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Scwr version of the mpower reactor

  • nuclear420
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Question about neutron shielding and resonance integral

  • aznsaiyan1029
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What are the main differences between CASMO-5 and HELIOS lattice codes?

  • libertad
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Nuclear fusion using plasma Part 2

  • timbot
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Building Gravitational Wave Experiment

  • emc2cracker
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What Does Hardening of Neutron Spectra Mean?

  • nuclear420
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Nuclear Engineering in Australia?

  • Sirsh
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How does ITER plan to produce its plasma current?

  • rabbit44
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PIDEC: Nuclear-Photoelectric Powerplant

  • sanman
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Can energy be converted into mass?

  • Rubix
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Fission yield of fission products

  • friendboy
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Gamma ray Energy Spectrum of Cd-109 and Sn-113

  • omernuke
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Which nations plan to build the most nuclear plants next decade?

  • ensabah6
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Steam Generation with Microwaves

  • Fitter
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The need for reactor engineeers ?

  • koab1mjr
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Could uranium-235 secondary become critical if seawater enters it?

  • lowellite
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Geiger counter calibration question

  • bitrex
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MOX (Plutonium-Uranium mixed Oxide) Nuclear Fuel

  • CFDFEAGURU
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Generating electricity from fusion

  • RandomGuy88
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Can fission be coupled to he-3 or H3 to reduce waste?

  • ensabah6
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Electricity output efficiency of Gen 2 versus Gen 3+ reactors

  • aquitaine
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What to expect in a Reactor physics and engineering class

  • koab1mjr
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How popular is PCTRAN in the industry?

  • koab1mjr
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Uranium in Nuclear Reactors: Why Use It?

  • otomanb
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When do we run out of uranium? How much is used per year?

  • edpell
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How do nuclear reactions start and what is the chemistry behind them?

  • Eric McClean
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How do I become a Nuclear Engineer? (Split from Canadian Engineering Thread)

  • paragphalak
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Can a 120°F hot spring support a 100-200 kW geothermal generator?

  • ActMax
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SCWR heat transfer deterioration phenomenon

  • Davsik
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Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in the Upper Atmosphere

  • loseyourname
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Could an Earthquake Rip Open a Nuclear Powerplant?

  • Nebula815
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DOE judges IFR best reactor design

  • ensabah6
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Prospective Nuclear Engineering Career

  • Hank_Rearden
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Benchmark of high temperature cross section libraries in MCNP

  • BessieM
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Nuclear weapons active research program/new designs?

  • ensabah6
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Giant nuclear powered combustion engine

  • Antiphon
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Nuclear Reactor With No Moving Parts

  • sysreset
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Using HELIOS Code for Preparing Macroscopic XS in PARCS

  • chivasorn
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What is the best way to find a liquid oxygen storage tank?

  • Omid
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Undergraduate Major for Career in Nuclear Fusion

  • DR13
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Could a tank or land vehicle be nuclear powered?

  • ensabah6
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Why Does Fission Chamber React to Neutron Fluxes Over Source Range?

  • chivasorn
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What are the cooling requirements for a gas core reactor?

  • aquitaine
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Photon Tracking Code: Calc New dx, dy, dz after 1st Scatter

  • Uranium
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Nuclear reactor in zero gravity

  • ChazH
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Focus Fusion is back in business

  • belbear
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Is Plasma Focus Fusion on the Verge of Success?

  • Aquamarine
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Could nanomachines reduced turbulence?

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