Recent content by mhs25

Here's our curriculum at Georgia Tech: http://www.nre.gatech.edu/docs/program_of_study_nre1213.pdf Almost exactly like Astronuc said. I was disappointed by our lack of computer science learning. The only actual class we had was the same intro class every engineer takes, which is in Matlab...

You're kidding right? Are you really comparing a car accelerator sticking under normal operating conditions to getting hit with the fourth largest recorded earthquake in history?? Followed by a 15m tsunami?? Get Real. Toyota isn't exactly going under right now, despite all the claims of their...

Wow, could it really have been that simple? I knew everything reacted normally to the Earthquake, so defending against the tsunami too can be avoided rather easily in the future?

Okay. I have a decent idea about seismic loads, before I switched my major to Nuclear I did a co-op with a company that sells/designs seismic restraints for HVAC systems here in GA. So the NRC reviews each plant site individually right? So each plant isn't an exact cookie cutter design. Can a...

With everything that's going on at Fukushima, I'm wondering how a newer reactor (Generation III or newer) would have held up under the same conditions? I understand it's near impossible to tell from anything this catastrophic and unprecedented, but perhaps Astronuc or someone else more...

I read that too while I was eating, had to spit out my water laughing. Unfortunately, it's people like that that will be deciding public policy about reactors going forward...

How much of nuclear energy costs go into regulations? I ask because I believe I heard somebody say in China Nuclear energy can compete with Coal much better because regulation costs are much cheaper. Is this true? How well would you say the US regulates the Nuclear industry? Is it too much...