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Neutron Flux in a sub-critical reactor

  • Oxlade
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Star Core Nuclear | Small HTGC Reactor Credentials

  • etudiant
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OCD and Fear of Radiation Contamination

  • lorelei
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Watts Bar Unit 2: Impact on Industry?

  • Cumberland
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What is the uncertainty in the activity of Cesium 137 over time?

  • Smigglet
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Guidance or tutorial of applying pseudo-material method

  • GeorgeChen92
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Record for Nuclear Fusion Set in MIT Tokamak Reactor

  • wolram
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How to calculate the drag force of a Bussard ramjet?

  • Nivek Writer
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Ratio of cosmic and cosmogenic radiation

  • snorkack
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Has anyone been able to install TALYS?

  • CuriousAES
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Alternative RTG Fuel: Exploring Pb210, Pu241, Ac227, Cm242, and Pm147

  • dgjxqz
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Performing statistical checks in MCNP5

  • her91
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Advice on possible nuclear contamination

  • DGR
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Gap Conduction in Nuclear Fuel rod Performance Codes

  • pouyan.najafi
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Role of the control rods during the core cycle

  • wronski11
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Plasma-Electrode Pockel Cell (PEPC)

  • SteveeGeorge
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What about ITER's plans makes it sustainable?

  • Terrified Virus
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Using F4 Tally on Hexagonal Lattice Geometry

  • gvntr52
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Is a Career in Nuclear Engineering Promising for an Arab/Jordanian Student?

  • madhisoka
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Half-Life & Flux: Is Decay Formula Relevant?

  • Moniz_not_Ernie
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Question about becquerel of nuclear waste over time

  • Evanish
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Understanding F6 Tallies in MCNP Simulations

  • Andrev
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Thought about a subnuclear reaction

  • Stuut
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Calculating Power Output of a Vapor Core Reactor

  • The Jason 1970
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Chernobyl Fate of Chernobyl's vehicle graveyard

  • nikkkom
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Rod Motion -> power level calc +loss of all station air

  • Strife_Cloud
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Burnup Conversion: Convert MWd/kgU or GWd/tU to %

  • Johnnyfer
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Pressure drop in fuel assemblies

  • sehrish shakir
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Help Needed With MCNP Variance Reduction Techniques

  • Neo Tran
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How Does Gamma Spectroscopy Track Changes Over Time?

  • Dade Murphy
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Efficiently Running Multiple MCNP Simulations with Variable Source Positions

  • jamez_302
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Nuclear Safety Discussion - Split Thread

  • mfb
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How to calculate/get info about inelastic scattered neutron?

  • Freemann
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About contol rods used in boiling water reactor

  • kumar1405
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Stunning Reversal In Sweden re Nuclear

  • anorlunda
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VVER Fuel Assemblies: Advanced Hexagonal Arrangement

  • nikkkom
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Neutron transport equation and pressure drop calculations in core ...

  • sehrish shakir
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What is the reactor power at Source, Intermediate and Power

  • NukengR
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Solve Diffusion Equation for 2nd BC w/ Source s(x)=cos(x)

  • victor77
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Finding Work of a Hydrogen Explosion

  • deuel18
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What is the forefront of research in energy?

  • Zak
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Finding Cross Section Data for Tungsten, Rhenium, Osmium & Iridium

  • zephramcochran
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Fusion Activation: Analysis & Calculation | Why Needed?

  • Amjad78
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Negative Buckling: What Are the Conditions?

  • gte116r
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Understanding How Nuclear Power Plants Work

  • ENE
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Specific activity of radionuclides

  • hariprasath
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Critical/Threshold energy - Is this statement incorrect?

  • Luchekv
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Bellefonte Update: Phoenix Energy of Nevada to Pursue Purchase

  • gmax137
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Attenuation and source positioning

  • Dade Murphy
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I was inside RBMK 1500, and have a few questions :)

  • Salvador
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How many barns at least for a commercial nuclear reactor?

  • kiwaho
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Niobium-titanium rod radioactive?

  • Davephaelon
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Chernobyl B. Medvedev Chernobyl Notebook

  • nikkkom
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Test Nuclear Radiation detector

  • mrmrzamany
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Supercritical water cooled reactor during LBLOCA

  • Jock Flannigan
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Production of Co-59 in nuclear reactor.

  • oksuz_
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Light Collection Efficiency for Liquid Scintillation Detecto

  • Priyo
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Gamma Ray Spectroscopy - 97 keV Peak for U238 Metal

  • Developer_CM
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Liquid Scintillation Counter w/ fast neutron detectin isotop

  • Priyo
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Particle accelerators safety systems

  • udi741
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Difference of B-10(n,2a)H-3 cross section in ENDF/B

  • Pengtaofu
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Nuclear Explosions in Space to stop Nuclear Missiles

  • Armed Update
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Granulometric Analysis: Radionuclide Activity, Uranium, Thorium & Potassium

  • hariprasath
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Method of succesive smoothing in triangular geomtery

  • mohammad hosseini
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Can a Magnetic Field Stop a Nuclear Bomb?

  • MD Device
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High-temperature tritium scrubbing

  • sevenperforce
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Regarding minerological analysis

  • hariprasath
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Radionuclides of radon and thoron

  • hariprasath
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Can a Nuclear Detonation be Channeled?

  • STC4476
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Radiation Dose Rate: 5 mL Pool Water Splash & 125 mL Ingestion

  • Hayool
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Help with nuclear explosion released isotopes

  • dovis
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How calculate iris radius and cavity radius in accelerator?

  • Ryan Reed
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Nuclear power plant - Control system

  • Luchekv
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Dismantlement of Nuclear Power Plant (Canada)

  • Cyril St-Amand
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What Type of Plasma Best Emits Thermal Energy for Efficient Reactor Design?

  • BlackDawnJake
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Types of Nuclear waste transmutation

  • Alxhan
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How did E=mc^2 contribute to the atomic bomb?

  • Isaac0427
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Length of wiring and firing switches: myth or truth?....

  • Majorana
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Project Orion again - why not interstellar probe?

  • Tiger Blood
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Criticality calculation of an homogeneous finite reactor

  • Babatunde22
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Radioactivity of fusion reactor walls vs. fission

  • Jeremy Thomson
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?Learning MCNP for Research Reactor Analysis

  • ISAAC BAIDOO
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The Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator: The Future of Nuclear Fusion

  • stevebd1
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Sustained nuclear criticality in liquid vortex

  • sevenperforce
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Buckyball encased uranium - the smallest possible pebble bed

  • Jeremy Thomson
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Could a Helium 3 Fusion Reactor Power a Settlement on the Moon?

  • IamQuarky
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Geiger counter and low-energy x-rays

  • Plat
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Chernobyl Chernobyl Reactors 1-3: Fuel Removal After 2000 Shutdown

  • Kutt
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Can Individuals Build Private Thorium Reactors for Personal Use?

  • Dembara
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The False Promise of Nuclear Fusion?

  • greswd
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Radiation or electrical interference? Geiger counter

  • Plat
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Nuclear fusion power plants - why is it taking so long to make them?

  • SpaceBear
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What drives the toroidal flow and current in a tokamak plasma?

  • God Plays Dice
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Disposition of Pu240 in Spent/Used Nuclear Fuel

  • eXorikos
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Fixing "Datasource Creation Error" in Genie 2000 w/ Virtualbox

  • Robert Dorr
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How do stellarator vs tokamak generate electicity?

  • kodama
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