Recent content by gmax137

I retired after more than 40 years in the commercial nuclear power business. Along the way, I worked with many physics bachelors. Check with the power companies, and with the reactor vendors (eg, Westinghouse, GE). They don't really need people with advanced degrees, since the analysis...

What's the difference?

5.4 rem per hour? ... per day? ...

Thanks for the check, @jrmichler . You're quite right, I'm not sure what I fat fingered to get 90K.

The discharge permit (worked out during the plant siting process) will govern the maximum allowed discharge temperature. The heat rejected will be based on the electrical output and the thermo efficiency -- in @Astronuc 's example, say 50 MWe from 150 MWt, the rejection will be the difference...

I'm having a hard time grasping this.

The videos are terrifying.

One of my favorite words is "epexegetic" or epexegetically Edit-- it's an example of an esoteric word

Wet noodle.

The idea in the OP reminds me of the traveling wave design most recently (?) promoted by Bill gates.

In all of the years I've written ft-lb, kw-hr,... I never once saw - as a minus sign. Now I can't un-see it, lol.

I must be missing something here. If IQ follows a normal distribution wouldn't 50% be average or above (not 80%)? I know this is a tangent, but have you taken the MMPI* test? That's a doozy. I've taken it as part of getting unescorted access in nuclear power facilities. They don't provide...

My thought was, as a young person comes up in grade school and through high school, the "smart kids" are pushed into the sciences - either by their parents / teachers or by themselves. I think this might have been even more true back in the 1950s and 1960s when the public's image of "smart...

Ugh.