Recent content by jugren

Thank you both for your answers this has already given me a lot of information! Just for my understanding: I thought the fast neutrons can induce fission in U-238 instead of only in U-235 and therefore this might be an advantage right? Even if you need to enhance the fuel in other ways? From...

Hi all, For my studies I chose a course on scaling up and down of industrial processes (mostly focussed on the chemical industry), but for our project we (a group of students who knew almost nothing about nuclear reactors) chose to look if the approach (dimensional analysis) can be applied to...

Hi all, I was told this was customary so I'll introduce myself I guess. I'm Jurgen from the Netherlands. I'm currently in my masters Chemical engineering and mostly interested in physical chemistry.