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Magnetic confinement field range
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How do i find quantities in fusion formulae
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What Happens to Beta Particles in Empty Space?
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Thermonuclear plasma turbine powerplant?
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What evidence supports the possibility of nuclear fusion in palladium cathodes?
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A few questions about atoms splitting and some about cold fusion
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Space Rockets and Space Aircrafts
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Thickness of oxidation layer on fuel elements.
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Thermodynamics Temp/Enthelpy in HTS
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So I joined the Navy to be a Nuke.
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Aftermath: Population Zero view of unattended nuke plants
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What is the difference between burnup and depletion calculations?
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Void reactivity and over/under moderation
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Xenon Poisoning: Decay & First Order Diff. Eqns
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Nuclear Engineering - International Students
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Ba-133 Neutron Capture Cross Section - Thermal & Excited States
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Will there ever be nuclear powered cars?
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Why don't we drop medical waste and nuclear waste into active volcanoes?
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Could Home Nuclear Generators Be a Viable Alternative for Heating?
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Can You Review My RBMK Reactor Diagram?
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How Is Proper Calibration Achieved for SCAs Using Cesium-137?
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Looking for a good textbook/book
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How to find neutron capture and fission cross section
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Can nuclear waste be converted into electricity?
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HTR fuel irradiation experiments at IVV-2M, HFR, R2, AVR and Dragon reactors
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Chernobyl The steps of Chernobyl and effects of radiation
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Liquid Sodium Cooling Loop Piping Material
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MITEE - Miniature Reactor Engine
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Finding a Solution to Nuclear Waste Disposal
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Can Plutonium from a Reactor be Reused?
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Calculating Fissile Plutonium output to estimate nuclear capability of a country
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What is the Density of 5% Enriched Uranium?
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What nuclear fission reactor design has the least environmental impact?
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Request Handbook: Soil Erosion & Sedimentation w/ Radionuclides
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Calculating Probability of Failure for a Series Cooling Circuit | Dear Folks
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Modeling the Potential Dose Rates of Dropped Irradiated Hardware in BWR-5 Plants
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Contemporary issues in crit safety?
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Fusion Power: How Long to Solve & Commercialize? | Expert Q&A
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Australian research reactor fuel problem
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Melt Wire Experiments: AVR Fuel Testing Analysis Explained
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Alpha Gloveboxes: Shielding for Alpha Particle Interactions
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Developing a simple program to solve the diffusion equation
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Nitrogen in PWR: Role & Equilibrium Activity
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How does a Betavoltaic Laptop Fuel Cell work?
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Gamma energies from fast neutron activation.
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Factors to Consider in Long Term Reactivity Control for PWRs
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Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel
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Engineering Red Tape: Can an Accelerator be Exempt?
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How Does Neutron Diffusion Theory Apply to Slab Reactors with Reflectors?
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What are the lessons learned from nuclear reactor design and analysis?
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How is energy conserved in an accelerator?
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Radionuclides instead of batteries?
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I WANT to build a nuclear reactor.
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Why Is Helium Preferred Over Nitrogen in High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors?
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French Nuclear Engineering Books: A Reader's Guide
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Fusion Power: Breaking the Coulomb Barrier
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Safety of Americium in Fast Reactors
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Reactor Core Rod Assembly: Hexagonal Arrangement Benefits?
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Can You Analyze Reactor Kinetics with Non-Stationary Initial Conditions?
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Reusability of Radioactive Waste?
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Cross Sections for Neutron Scattering in Different Frames
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Prospect for Nuclear Power Industry in US
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Learning How Nuclear Reactors Work/Are Constructed
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Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactors
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Nuclear History - Past and Present
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Is It Time to Reconsider Anti-Nuclear Laws?
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Level of enforced secrecy in nuclear physics
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Atom Interferometry for Nuclear Reactions
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Does the fusion process cause a chain reaction?
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Nuclear energy hot topic once again $7 billlion seriously?
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Calibration of ion flow chambre
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High-Yield Fusion Closer to Reality with Revolutionary LTD System
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Has the cost of uranium soared in the past few years?
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Is Nuclear Power an Eminent Threat to Health and Well-Being?
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Create Accurate MCNP Phantom Templates for Radiation Dose Calculations
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Exploring Neutron Population in Sub-Critical Reactor with Heavy Water Reflector
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Six group point kinetic equation
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Genie 2000 - Find FWTM Paramenter from CAM Files
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Explore NSD Fusion GmbH's Product & Design Approach
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Food Irradiation Shielding Calculation for MPD
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Permeability of various material to Radon gas
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Can grinding and mixing nuclear waste solve the problem?
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Nuclear Missles and destruction?
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Nuclear fusion and bernouilli's principle
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Nuclear Fusion Idea - Unlock the Future!
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Toxcicity of Plutonium and Bernard Cohen
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Atomic bombs and radiation in TV shows
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What's the status of fusion energy? (not CF )
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Planning future use of nuclear waste
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Once through nuclear fission designs seems horribly wasteful & polluting
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Asymmetric Fission: Why It's Not Symmetric
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Can Tokamak Reactors Achieve Break-Even Fusion?
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Expert Opinions on Choosing a Grad School Direction in Nuclear Engineering
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Help with Strange Reaction on He-4
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Presentation on Nuclear Reactors
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Atom Structure: Electron, Nucleus, Vacuum?
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Light water coolant is at a supercritical pressure at 25MP
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Who had the means and motive to use Polonium-210 as a weapon?
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