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Fatal error entry 2 is not monotonically increasing
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Help With MCNP Volume definition
  • khary23
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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?
  • Josiah
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Tritium concentration at Fukushima Water Treatment Facility
  • alexzive
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Just how safe are molten salt and pebble bed reactors?
  • greswd
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What is the most efficient method for heating plasma in fusion reactors?
  • artis
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Functioning Molten Salt Reactors: Who Has Made Progress in Their Development?
  • Flexwheeler
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Chernobyl Did the fuel rod caps jumping cause the Chernobyl disaster?
  • PixelPicaso
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MCNP error zero lattice element hit
  • physicsbump
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Weird readings of a Geiger counter in my basement
  • iPrimeSE
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Is cusp confinement the key to achieving sustainable fusion reactions?
  • David lopez
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Result is zero flux for MCNP6 *F4 tally
  • khary23
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Cloud chamber approach to stopping hurricanes
  • hagopbul
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Three mile Island Power Plant to be Shut Down
  • gleem
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MCNP6.2: F2 tally and problem with the area calculation
  • Deb
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Radiation interference with camera at Chernobyl?
  • Seany110
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Reactor dynamics with a large reactivity insert
  • dRic2
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Can Someone Explain How Nuclear Fuel Rods Heat Water in a Reactor?
  • Jimmy87
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Are electronic and nuclear binding energies a + or - number?
  • geoelectronics
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Chernobyl Did Chernobyl divers prevent a multi megaton explosion?
  • Jeremy Thomson
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Im thinking about building a cyclometer
  • professor
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Changing KMESH/KINTS from azimuthal to polar direction in MCNP6
  • khary23
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How do I turn on model physics in MCNP6 to solve a fatal error?
  • muthboravy
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PET/CT Gamma Ray Protection with Lead Apron
  • EBPoncho
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What to do with Depleted Uranium?
  • Wazzu890
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Need a way to electronically detect elements
  • Aresofthesea
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Explore the Fascinating Free Electron Laser
  • rasperas
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Can We Harness Dark Energy and Further Innovate Existing Energy Sources?
  • AchillesWrathfulLove
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Reactor fail-safe shutdown at any power density?
  • The_engine_ear
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MCNP4c2: Fission Reactions in a Spherical Subcritical Reactor
  • Dimitris Catzis
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Computer simulation of MSR work
  • Niko Skrypnik
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MCNP5 vs MCNP6.2 syntax difference
  • werling3
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MCNP error surface 0 not found for cell 101
  • XinyueFu
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Chernobyl How Accurate is HBO's Chernobyl in Explaining Nuclear Reactor Physics?
  • member659127
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Analytical solution to mono-group kinetics with a ramp of reactivity
  • dRic2
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Chernobyl Could Material be Retrieved from Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot?
  • Shane Kennedy
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What are some ways net positive muon catalyzed fusion can be realized?
  • arusse02
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Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT)
  • Astronuc
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Question about PET scans (Positron emission tomography)
  • riodice
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Chernobyl Alternative to generators to prevent the Chernobyl disaster
  • Phys12
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Chernobyl How did this worker approach this fuel mass at Chernobyl?
  • Kutt
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Why isn't tungsten used in nuclear reactors?
  • Mackenzie Cobb
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Resonance escape probability after a change in temperature
  • dRic2
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Why isn't Thorium used for reactor fuel rods?
  • ComputerJockey2017
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Fusion power generation: percentage of neutrons expected to be caught?
  • John Plant
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When can I use the prompt jump approximation?
  • dRic2
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Calculating the integrated Beta dose in dense materials (radiolysis)
  • solpete
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Chernobyl Why does radiation taste like metal?
  • ElliotSmith
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Safe zero base reactivity level nuclear fission reactor?
  • consuli
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At NIF what is the shape of the 1st stage of the plasma
  • hagopbul
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MSRE prompt supercriticality event, looking for information
  • mesa
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Could Radioisotope Thermoelectric generators power electric cars?
  • nite owl
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To use Genpmaxs for PARCS XS generation
  • TM_David
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What's the "Control System Tank" in RBMK
  • Reuenthal
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"No tally, no plot" error MCNP6
  • khary23
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Mechanical loads on ITER's magnetic coils
  • cmb
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Does FMESH in MCNP support spherical geometry with the TMESH tally?
  • khary23
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Brachytherapy source specifications
  • saidhorion
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Who has the more promising fusion approach, MIT or ITER?
  • arusse02
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Understanding the Adjoint Multigroup Diffusion Equation
  • DimZero
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"Y plus" calculator value for a fuel bundle
  • Meb15aa
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MCNP6 Disc Source Setup: Troubleshoot 0 Counts
  • janeeburch
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Recommend topic about magnetic confinement in fusion
  • Edward33
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Very specific AGR reactor core question
  • Meb15aa
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TUBRNP (Transuranus/FRAPCON) model
  • yrob
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Neutron's crow flight distance & 2° moment of a distribution
  • dRic2
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A valve changing area in RELAP5
  • madhisoka
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Alternative for lithium in Deuterium-Tritium fusion power
  • FTM1000
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China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST)
  • NoLifeLine
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Is Building a Mini Tokamak Fusion Reactor in My Garage Feasible?
  • Xforce
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Difference between system subchannel and CFD codes
  • Meb15aa
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How Does Tokamak Plasma Heating Work and Can Reactive Power Improve Efficiency?
  • artis
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Proper simulation code for a Nuclear Reactor core
  • Dimitris Catzis
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Which Tally type should I use in MCNP6?
  • khary23
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Neutron moderation in a Hydrogen medium and scattering
  • dRic2
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What if we had commercial fusion power?
  • phyzguy
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Deficiencies in Vised compared with MCNP
  • alaa y okasha
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How Does Oxygen Transform into Nitrogen in ITER's Fusion Reactor?
  • cmb
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Questions about Neutron scattering theory
  • dRic2
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Did the Tokaimura Criticality Incident Create an AHR?
  • Delta Force
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About the heat carrier in a nuclear reactor
  • hagopbul
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MCNP ignoring particle histories
  • oksuz_
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Problem with F5, FT5 and FU5 card in MCNP
  • NuclearPhysicist
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MCNP neutron energy deposition in water
  • oksuz_
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Where can I find the photon yield/intensity values for MCNP6 simulations?
  • khary23
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Struggling with MCNP problem
  • zincsulphide
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Struggling to understand cell cards in MCNP
  • zincsulphide
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MCNPX - problem in cross-section
  • Alexander Camargo
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Understanding MCNP Output File: Mean Alpha Energy and Particle Distribution
  • zincsulphide
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Why Am I Getting a Fatal Error and Warnings in MCNP6?
  • khary23
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Can Nuclear Secrets Truly Remain Confidential?
  • seazal
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Current State of Nuclear Fusion Power
  • hotvette
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Geiger (or other ionizing ray) Probe for Vacuum Conditions
  • consuli
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E' vs. E_2 Neutron Scattering and Logarithmic Energy Loss
  • PlasMav
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Alternative to MCNP for modeling alpha particles?
  • markL09
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Void Coefficient: Why Is It Negative in US Reactors?
  • RWM
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MCNP: Scoring Energy Fluence on a Radiograph Planar Grid
  • Panagiotis
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Can New Isotope Methods Improve Neutron Confinement in Nuclear Reactors?
  • andrew848
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What Are the Key Components of Spheromak Configurations in Plasma Physics?
  • artis
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