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    Japan Earthquake: Nuclear Plants at Fukushima Daiichi

    How strong might be the impact to all the new builds? Does this influence OL3 and all the Chinese reactors? China planned to pour the concrete for the 1st commercial HTR end of this month... Maybe a delay? Speculations only? What are your thoughts about it? Is there the next nuclear winter...
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    Why aren't more nuclear power plants using incineration for waste treatment?

    Well I do understand that no radionuclides will be destroyed but the volume reduction is magnificent. As I know the AP 1000 for example is producing a lot of spent resin which will be cemented afterwards. The volume is increasing by 70 percent ! If we would burn or pyrolyse this resin we could...
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    Why aren't more nuclear power plants using incineration for waste treatment?

    Folks, I have found a company in the web which is offering incineration of nuclear waste. I was wondering why not more NPPs are using incineration as the treatment of burnable waste? It seems to be the standard in Japan and some NPPs in eastern europe and russia. why not in europe or the...
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    High Temperature Reactor Fuel Elements

    Great Forum. Thanks for your help. There is plenty of stuff out there to read... I have to do a first screen at the weekend. I'm pretty sure further questions will come up and I'm also sure I will find answers out here! Great. Thank you all :smile: Are there many people here in this...
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    High Temperature Reactor Fuel Elements

    Wow thanks for the quick answer. I'm working at the German company which was actually developing and manufacturing the coated particles respectively the actual pebble for the AVR and the THTR (both HTR Reactors in Germany). Unfortunately in the late 80's the HTR Development Program was...
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    High Temperature Reactor Fuel Elements

    Folks, this is my first thread in this forum. I'm writing my PhD about HTR-Fuel Elements. I'm not quite sure if anyone in this forum knows about this sort of fuel which is totally different to "normal" fuel. Anyway, I'm looking for informations about research in the US (or global) what...
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    Engineering What are the salary prospects for nuclear engineering graduates?

    Hi, I'm a nuclear Engineer working in Germany. Experience: 3 years jod description: Sales Manager studies: process engineering income: 60k € Regards, FE
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