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Information of secondary neutron source in French PWR

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Neutron Flux in a sub-critical reactor

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Star Core Nuclear's credentials for their helium-cooled modular reactor

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OCD and Fear of Radiation Contamination

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Watts Bar Unit 2: Impact on Industry?

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

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Guidance or tutorial of applying pseudo-material method

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Record for Nuclear Fusion Set in MIT Tokamak Reactor

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How to calculate the drag force of a Bussard ramjet?

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Ratio of cosmic and cosmogenic radiation

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Has anyone been able to install TALYS?

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RTG fuels as alternatives to Pu238: Pb210, Pu241, Ac227, Cm242, Pm147

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Performing statistical checks in MCNP5

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Advice on possible nuclear contamination

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Gap Conduction in Nuclear Fuel rod Performance Codes

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Role of the control rods during the core cycle

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Low detector efficiency in MCNP He3 simulation with Pu240 matrix

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Plasma-Electrode Pockel Cell (PEPC)

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What about ITER's plans makes it sustainable?

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Using F4 Tally on Hexagonal Lattice Geometry

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

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Can the radioactive decay formula apply to neutron-induced transmutation?

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When does spent fuel rod activity return to pre-use levels?

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Understanding F6 Tallies in MCNP Simulations

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Thought about a subnuclear reaction

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Calculating Power Output of a Vapor Core Reactor

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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

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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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When to use PHYS:N, PHYS:P and cutoff in MCNP?

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

  • Dade Murphy
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Running MCNP simulations with a moving Co-60 source

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Nuclear Safety Discussion - Split Thread

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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

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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 in reactor core

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

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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

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What is the forefront of research in energy?

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Thermal neutron capture cross sections for tungsten transmutation

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Why is activation analysis needed in fusion reactors?

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Negative Buckling: What Are the Conditions?

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Understanding How Nuclear Power Plants Work

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Specific activity of radionuclides

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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

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Attenuation and source positioning

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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?

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Niobium-titanium rod radioactive?

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Chernobyl B. Medvedev Chernobyl Notebook

  • nikkkom
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Test Nuclear Radiation detector

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Supercritical water cooled reactor during LBLOCA

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Production of Co-59 in nuclear reactor.

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Light Collection Efficiency for Liquid Scintillation Detecto

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Gamma Ray Spectroscopy - 97 keV Peak for U238 Metal

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Liquid Scintillation Counter w/ fast neutron detectin isotop

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Particle accelerators safety systems

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

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Nuclear Explosions in Space to stop Nuclear Missiles

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Does particle size affect primordial radionuclide activity in soil?

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Method of succesive smoothing in triangular geomtery

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Can a Magnetic Field Stop a Nuclear Bomb?

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High-temperature tritium scrubbing

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Regarding minerological analysis

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Radionuclides of radon and thoron

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Can a Nuclear Detonation be Channeled?

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Radiation dose from tritium in reactor pool water splash and ingestion

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How calculate iris radius and cavity radius in accelerator?

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Nuclear power plant - Control system

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Dismantlement of Nuclear Power Plant (Canada)

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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

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

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Firing circuit timing in nuclear weapon detonators

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Project Orion again - why not interstellar probe?

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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

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Wendelstein 7-X stellarator and nuclear fusion prospects

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Sustained nuclear criticality in liquid vortex

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Buckyball encased uranium - the smallest possible pebble bed

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

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Geiger counter and low-energy x-rays

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Chernobyl Did they remove fuel from Chernobyl reactors 1-3 after the 2000 shutdown?

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Can Individuals Build Private Thorium Reactors for Personal Use?

  • Dembara
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The False Promise of Nuclear Fusion?

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Radiation or electrical interference? Geiger counter

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

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

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Disposition of Pu240 in Spent/Used Nuclear Fuel

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