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Hi, Thank you for your reply. What about the VVER reactors, that EU is still pushing to be closed, as I understood that they are better than the RBMKs, however why does EU want them so much closed, it must be some safety risk that they are seeing. Do you think the disadvantages...

I recall the accident story, when it was said that the blast at Chernobyl distroyed the thousands of tons of ceiling. This is what I wanted to achieve with this thread to understand which are those differences in design between the RBMK's and the western design, that make RBMK's more...

Hi, Which are the major falws of an RBMK reactor. I have found three: 1. fixed graphite moderator that doesn't act as the LWR reactor to slow down the chain fissions when the temprature in the core gets to hot 2. the missing containment building ,or inapropiate one . Can someone...

Is it correct that Pu cannot be found in nature? What I mean acctually is that while Uranium can be mined, Pu from what I have searchd on wikipedia cannot be mined. I know that Pu is produced in nuclear reactors(or other facilities) from Uranium.

Than would you agree with me in saying that nuclides sounds more like all living creatures, not only fish :), and than you have variations on the same species of animals (isotopes where the chemical element is the same, but the neutrons differ...) What is the difference between nuclides and...

Malawi can you give an example of non-nuclide? I mean what is outside of the nuclide scope?

Thank you malawi but I thought that nucleons where neoutrons + protons, and then nucleons + electrons = atoms As I said isotopes I understand, they are related to the same chemical element. I also understand that nuclide is a more general concept that includes isotopes, but I can't...

Hello, I'm fairly new with the nuclear physics, but I'm willing to study and learn as much as possible. I've been reading on wikipedia about the nuclides, but I couldn't understand what is the difference between an atom and a nuclide? On wikipedia they say that a nuclide is a...