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Is this an idea or a device? (fusion plasma confinement configuration)
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Limiting Factors for Liner Implosion in Z Machine Fusion
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Chg_mem error problem with MCNP
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Principle of Nuclear Fission Direct Energy Conversion
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KSTAR recent result and breakeven
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Radiation effects/damage in structural alloys and ceramics
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Modeling PWR Core With Spacer Grid
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What will be the economic purpose of modular reactors?
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CAMAC crate electronics - Where were/are they used?
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Hydrogen Fusion Engine: Steel Sphere & Sulfuric Acid
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Tokamak question: What happens when you shine a laser on the plasma?
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How to use mesh tally in MCNPX to calculate dose?
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Does neutron embrittlement pose a real threat in this century?
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MCNP5, dose calculation, subcritical system
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Magnetic mirror: pentagon or hexagon toroid?
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Russian rocket accident releases radiation
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Basic understanding of Graphite-Water reactors
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Magnetic mirror concept -- electrons vs ions
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How to Fix SSR Card Error in MCNP Using RSSA File?
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Fukushima or BWR expert opinion needed
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First-Year Undergraduate Nuclear Fusion Advice for Experience?
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Question about Molten Salt Fast Reactors
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Question：What is the difference between flux and current?
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How to measure the activity of a radioactive source
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SLOWFAST, reactor being both slow and fast
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Nuclear weapon detonator physics
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Software for nuclear cross-section measurement and Irradiation yield
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Calculating Organ Dose w/ FMESE4+FM
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Could anyone help me with my problem, my MCNPX simulation is not working
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Pulsed Tokamak Fusion: Net Energy Gain Possibility?
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Can a Fission Fragment rocket be designed without a moderator?
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Nuclear Chain Reaction Conditions
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Chernobyl What Are the Key Operational and Safety Features of the Chernobyl RBMK Reactor?
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MCNP Fatal Error: Troubleshooting Guide
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Delayed neutron energy spectrum
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Pressures and Temperatures Required for Fusion
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How Do Molten Salt Reactors Start and Mitigate Thermal Gradients?
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MCNP keff > 1.0 depletion question
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You heard about "The Sheared Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch"
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Radiation-eating fungus at Chernoble
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Fast reactors: How can they work without a moderator?
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Calculating Roentgens from an X-Ray source
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Use of tally with surfaces and macrobodies in MCNP
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Radiation shielded Go-Pro camera sent through electron beam irradiator
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How much energy does it take to make fissile material?
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Help with error please: "dump 1 on file" on MCNP
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Breeder fuel efficiency question
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What Are The Economics Of Pebble Bed Reactors
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Looking for chart paper for a TRIGA MKI
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Nuclear backpack bomb, glow in the dark paint
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How would electricity be generated from a nuclear fusion reactor?
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"Unexpected error in file" in MCNP
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What materials are used for the tokamak toroid wall?
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High pressure gas discharge fusion
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Did they ever build the RBMKP-2400 or 4800 reactors?
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Fission products released from failed fuel rods in a PWR
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Neutron flux in coolant and fuel pin in PWR
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Question about proportional counters for gamma rays
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Does radioactive decay exhibit stimulated emission?
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Ways of getting rid of nuclear waste
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Geometry error: no intersection found in mcnp
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MCNP: mesh with weight window generator
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Relating the Gamma Constant to the absorbed dose
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Laser pulses could reduce the half-life of nuclear waste to just 30 minutes
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Why did they use Boron at Chernobyl?
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Forrtl: severe <157> : program exception -access violation MCNP6
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Fresh Water from Nuclear Desalination Plants
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MCNP6 is not printing an MCTAL file
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Alkali Metal Thermal Electric Conversion (AMTEC)
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The Economics of Nuclear Energy
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Linear Vs. Exponential Doubling Time in a Breeder
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Inventory of Cs-137 in Reactor Shutdown on 1/1/2009
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How do gas core nuclear reactors work?
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Degrees of freedom in the energy density formula for black body radiation
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Chernobyl Would Chernobyl reactor #4 still have exploded if....
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Types of fusion reactors and how they work?
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Can a fusion reactor experience a Chernobyl-like situation?
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Fusion Plasma Trap: Capturing Neutral & Quasi-Neutral Plasmas
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MCNP: Is it possible to make a "hole" in an fmesh tally?
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Fatal error entry 2 is not monotonically increasing
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Help With MCNP Volume definition
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Possible to calculate the strength of a nuclear explosion from a photo?
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Would this make nuclear fusion work?
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Tritium concentration at Fukushima Water Treatment Facility
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Just how safe are molten salt and pebble bed reactors?
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What is the most efficient method for heating plasma in fusion reactors?
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Functioning Molten Salt Reactors: Who Has Made Progress in Their Development?
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Chernobyl Did the fuel rod caps jumping cause the Chernobyl disaster?
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MCNP error zero lattice element hit
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Weird readings of a Geiger counter in my basement
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Is cusp confinement the key to achieving sustainable fusion reactions?
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Result is zero flux for MCNP6 *F4 tally
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Cloud chamber approach to stopping hurricanes
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Three mile Island Power Plant to be Shut Down
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MCNP6.2: F2 tally and problem with the area calculation
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Radiation interference with camera at Chernobyl?
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Reactor dynamics with a large reactivity insert
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Can Someone Explain How Nuclear Fuel Rods Heat Water in a Reactor?
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Are electronic and nuclear binding energies a + or - number?
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Chernobyl Did Chernobyl divers prevent a multi megaton explosion?
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