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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

  • Rajini
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Will Gen IV nuclear plants producing hydrogen be safe and practical?

  • LURCH
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Resources for deep understanding about nuclear fuel materials

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Questions about ANC and Transport Theory

  • Comdrpopnfres
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How to make your own particle accelerator

  • Vals509
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What happens to the Neutrons and Protons in a Tokamak reactor.

  • Pattonias
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Nuclear Power and Reactor Scale.

  • ohwilleke
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Hello Matt,Is the Magnetohydrodynamics Book Worth Buying?

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Can nuclear batteries convert radioactive decay into usable power?

  • mark1
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What are the chief technical challenges for a magnetic plasma sail?

  • sanman
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W: Reprocessing and the IFR: Solving the Issue of Radioactive Waste?

  • Andrew Mason
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Optical (laser/maser) cooling of fusion products.

  • obelenkiy
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Use Fusion to Zap Nuclear Waste

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Does working in a nuclear power plant cause cancer?

  • dubaiboy
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What materials and fuel are best for a tokamak fusion reactor?

  • VelociBlade
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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?

  • Blenton
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What do you like and dislike about being a nuclear engineer?

  • mitch93
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Thermal neutron scattering cross sections for individual isotopes

  • BobGom
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Durabilty of sealed radioactive samples

  • sim0e
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Medical Isotope production - NRX reactor

  • Andrew Mason
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Can Magnetic Compression Revolutionize Nuclear Fusion Techniques?

  • taylaron
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Light-water reactor and plutonium produce

  • magnetar
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Fusion Propulsion for Spacecraft

  • joelupchurch
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Why is fusion power research losing funding and momentum?

  • aquitaine
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Babcock & Wilcox 125MW(e) small modular reactor design

  • mheslep
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Why did funding stop for the Integral Fast Reactor?

  • catseye747
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Free Neutron Decay: Is It True?

  • gmax137
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Net Resources for Advanced Math in Nuclear Engineering

  • saifadin
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Fuel Measurement: How PWR Nuclear Plants Calculate Fuel Amount

  • EEstudentNAU
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Can nuclei be excited to higher energy states like electrons?

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Is the SSTAR Program Still Active?

  • joelupchurch
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Power Choice for Offworld Refinery: Solar Thermal vs Nuclear

  • aquitaine
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Chernobyl More killed mining coal in Ukraine than killed by Chernobyl

  • Andrew Mason
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Can Very High Burnup Reactors Lower the Cost of Nuclear Energy?

  • shaegelin
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Radioactive Waste as a Power Source?

  • Roo
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Fusion propulsion with interlocking tokamaks and vertical pipes

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When Peer Review Fails NIF Debacle

  • mheslep
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Graduate School in Nuclear Engineering - Can I Make the Switch?

  • JD88
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Imperial College London - Nuclear Engineering

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Crew precautions and reactor shielding on nuclear-powered ships

  • jamesb-uk
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Research on nuclear power for space propulsion

  • Winzer
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Clarifying Geometric and Material Buckling

  • Szymanski
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Electron Screening: How It Affects Fusion Cross Section

  • saifadin
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How Big Is the Step from a Fission Bomb to a Fusion Bomb?

  • Datafree
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There is no such thing as Nuclear Waste

  • mark1
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High Temperature Reactor Fuel Elements

  • FlyingEng
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X-ray Imaging with Anstegrom Wavelengths

  • Lisa!
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Bypass flow in a pebble bed reactor

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Barrier transparency and quantum tunnling

  • saifadin
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Does a neutron's force cause fission or nuclear excitation?

  • MyNameIsRyan
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Is Nuclear Engineering a Limited Field in Canadian Universities?

  • Dagenais
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Navy Publication Claims LENR Fusion

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Can Technobabble Be Avoided in Discussions About Quark Technology?

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Detecting scintillation flash using semiconductors

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Is it a myth that France has a successful nuclear industry?

  • ensabah6
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The Properties of U235 and U238: A Comparison

  • saifadin
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Free books about Nuclear Physics

  • saifadin
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Smallest Tokamak Reactor Size: Can it be in a Garage?

  • VelociBlade
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Nuclear waste disposal by breakdown

  • Vals509
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How Will Shifting to Renewable Energy Affect Our Lives?

  • Vals509
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Why does radioactive decay follow exponential decay, not linear?

  • Mentallic
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Combine fusion reactors with fission reactors

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Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons

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Should we use nuclear energy yes or no?

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Lower limit of detection equation for contamination wipes

  • daveb
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Building a betatron with a TV electron gun

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Nuclear Reactor Physics Book by Weston M. Stacey

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Nuclear reactor physics by Weston Stacey

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Why D + D Reactions Don't Produce He4: Understanding Nuclear Fusion

  • Knuckles
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Can Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion Revolutionize Silent Submarines?

  • taylaron
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Is Pu-238 a Viable Alternative to Pu-239 for Nuclear Energy?

  • truhaht
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Even if sustained nuclear fusion were possible, commericially viable?

  • ensabah6
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Liquid-fuel molten salt reactor?

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Which Canadian colleges offer nuclear engineering programs?

  • praglee
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Can Radiation Be Seen When Contaminated?

  • roy2008
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Temperature questions

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How could i build a synchrotron/cyclotron?

  • PHYSICS!!!:-)
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Is it too ammbitious for four freshmen to do this?

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