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MCNP: How to use value zero in a fully specified fill

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Are there any inherent advantages of using He3-He3 over d-He3?

  • privick
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Xenon poisoning (negative xenon load varies with core burnup)

  • Sanjay94
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What do people think about nuclear energy safety and efficiency?

  • AndrewAndrew
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Are fluorescent dyes radioactive?

  • justamom
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Tidal Wave generated by Nuclear Weapon

  • crashDx
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3D model I made of the Fukushima Daiichi control room

  • ElliotSmith
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Have you heard about the French Fusion Reactor?

  • Xilus
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How to Calculate Absolute Gamma Probability from Relative Intensities?

  • HaniNaber
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What do NRC SCRAM codes (N, M, E, A, R) mean?

  • Northmeadow
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Point Kinetics for Linear Insertion of Reactivity

  • a1234
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MNCP5 error: Program Exception - stack overflow

  • ytaiwo85
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Is my used Geiger counter radioactive?

  • justamom
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What is FOGBANK and its role in the US nuclear arsenal?

  • cmb
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Could directed energy revolutionize hybrid heating systems in tokamaks?

  • Andrewtv848
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How do stellarators achieve MHD equilibrium without plasma current?

  • Meaning
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3D model I made of the Three Mile Island control room

  • ElliotSmith
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MCNP 6.2: Fission Product Recoil/Transport

  • TheNE
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Using a minimized nuclear reactor for further space travel

  • Interested user
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Can Flame Jets Effectively Constrain Plasma in Fusion Reactors?

  • Andrewtv848
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Is MCNP capable of scoring fission spectrum?

  • froztiz
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U-Shaped Coil Tokamak: Poloidal Field Control

  • artis
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Spiral plasma filament confinement in a toroidal chamber

  • bayakiv
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Limiting Factors for Liner Implosion in Z Machine Fusion

  • artis
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Chg_mem error problem with MCNP

  • zhangxm
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Principle of Nuclear Fission Direct Energy Conversion

  • Aakash Sunkari
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KSTAR recent result and breakeven

  • jimgraber
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Radiation effects/damage in structural alloys and ceramics

  • Astronuc
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Modeling PWR Core With Spacer Grid

  • Amjad78
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What will be the economic purpose of modular reactors?

  • BenKlesc
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CAMAC crate electronics - Where were/are they used?

  • Christoffer B
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Can hydrogen ions fuse in a charged steel sphere with sulfuric acid?

  • Bruce Haawkins
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What happens when a laser is shone into tokamak plasma?

  • Fishpig
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How to use mesh tally in MCNPX to calculate dose?

  • LeeGru
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Does neutron embrittlement pose a real threat in this century?

  • BenKlesc
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MCNP5, dose calculation, subcritical system

  • Kashif
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Magnetic mirror: pentagon or hexagon toroid?

  • artis
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Russian rocket accident releases radiation

  • Baluncore
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Basic understanding of Graphite-Water reactors

  • mccannta
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Magnetic mirror concept -- electrons vs ions

  • artis
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How to Fix SSR Card Error in MCNP Using RSSA File?

  • TTA
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Review of Fukushima disaster chapter in nuclear history book

  • R_Spc
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First-Year Undergraduate Nuclear Fusion Advice for Experience?

  • hdt21
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Why use NaCl instead of NaF in molten salt fast reactors

  • Tom Holtsnider
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Question:What is the difference between flux and current?

  • LeeGru
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How to measure the activity of a radioactive source

  • dRic2
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SLOWFAST, reactor being both slow and fast

  • artis
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How Did University of Tehran Researchers Gain Access to MCNP Software?

  • random_soldier
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Nuclear weapon detonator physics

  • artis
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Software for nuclear cross-section measurement and Irradiation yield

  • Rifat amin
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Calculating Organ Dose w/ FMESE4+FM

  • weiyuan
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MCNPX cross-section file error with bertin

  • Ericdjs
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Pulsed Tokamak Fusion: Net Energy Gain Possibility?

  • artis
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Can a Fission Fragment rocket be designed without a moderator?

  • Al_
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Nuclear Chain Reaction Conditions

  • jugren
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MCNP fatal error with geometry definition

  • LeeGru
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Delayed neutron energy spectrum

  • snorkack
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Pressures and Temperatures Required for Fusion

  • korneld
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How Do Molten Salt Reactors Start and Mitigate Thermal Gradients?

  • essenmein
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MCNP keff > 1.0 depletion question

  • Caden
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You heard about "The Sheared Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch"

  • Lord of plasma
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Radiation-eating fungus at Chernoble

  • Tom.G
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Fast reactors: How can they work without a moderator?

  • artis
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Calculating Roentgens from an X-Ray source

  • neanderthalphysics
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Use of tally with surfaces and macrobodies in MCNP

  • Geovanny Gutierrez
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Radiation shielded Go-Pro camera sent through electron beam irradiator

  • ElliotSmith
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How much energy does it take to make fissile material?

  • sillycow
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MCNP dump 1 on file error message

  • chang-ho
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Breeder fuel efficiency question

  • essenmein
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What Are The Economics Of Pebble Bed Reactors

  • bhobba
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Looking for chart paper for a TRIGA MKI

  • mesa
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Nuclear backpack bomb, glow in the dark paint

  • Jeremy Thomson
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How would electricity be generated from a nuclear fusion reactor?

  • ElliotSmith
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"Unexpected error in file" in MCNP

  • khary23
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What materials are used for the tokamak toroid wall?

  • artis
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High pressure gas discharge fusion

  • artis
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Did they ever build the RBMKP-2400 or 4800 reactors?

  • ElliotSmith
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Fission products released from failed fuel rods in a PWR

  • Pengtaofu
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Neutron flux in coolant and fuel pin in PWR

  • Pengtaofu
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Distinguishing multiple weak ionization events from single high energy gamma rays

  • neanderthalphysics
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Does radioactive decay exhibit stimulated emission?

  • neanderthalphysics
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Ways of getting rid of nuclear waste

  • Jmarie
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Geometry error: no intersection found in mcnp

  • khary23
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MCNP: mesh with weight window generator

  • Deb
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Relating the Gamma Constant to the absorbed dose

  • khary23
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Laser pulses could reduce the half-life of nuclear waste to just 30 minutes

  • ElliotSmith
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Why did they use Boron at Chernobyl?

  • Jimmy87
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Forrtl: severe <157> : program exception -access violation MCNP6

  • khary23
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Fresh Water from Nuclear Desalination Plants

  • Paulanddiw
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MCNP6 is not printing an MCTAL file

  • khary23
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Alkali Metal Thermal Electric Conversion (AMTEC)

  • sanman
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The Economics of Nuclear Energy

  • Andrew Mason
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Linear Vs. Exponential Doubling Time in a Breeder

  • terryphi
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Inventory of Cs-137 in Reactor Shutdown on 1/1/2009

  • kirilrost
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How do gas core nuclear reactors work?

  • Urvabara
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Degrees of freedom in the energy density formula for black body radiation

  • goldbloom55
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Chernobyl Would Chernobyl reactor #4 have exploded without graphite-tipped control rods?

  • ElliotSmith
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Types of fusion reactors and how they work?

  • Xforce
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Can a fusion reactor experience a Chernobyl-like situation?

  • GTOM
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