What nuclear fission reactor design has the least environmental impact? Including the building, operating, safety, and amount of pollution produced?
I'd imagine IFR/breeder reactors as they burn a...
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I need a book, please help me.
Handbook for the Assessment of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Using Environmental Radionuclides
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I have a general interest in fusion energy and I'm currently looking at the 'fusion energy gain factor' (Q) of fusion reactors (the energy produced divided by the energy used to induce ignition). I'm...
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This week there were 100 people killed in a single coal mine explosion in the Ukraine. According to this report [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111800127.html?h...
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It finally happened. An ecological disaster right in the heart of the "greens" homeland--San Francisco. It's outrageous. The most ardent protectors of the environment couldn't stop it. N...
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After a brief venture over into the medical/RHP side of things, I find myself drawn back into nuclear engineering. Glad it happened before I got too deep into something else! Ive just started working...
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Dear folks,
Please help me in assessing the following scenario. I have a cooling circuit arranged in series: (1) Heat exchanger (probability = 10^(-4)/requirement), (2) Pump (probability = 10^(-3)...
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I work in a BWR-5 plant and this outage we will be swapping 36 control rod blades. We currently restrict access to the upper elevations of the drywell during irradiated hardware and fuel moves because...
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You got temperature and/or pressure, and one simple atom to play with. What's the big deal?...
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Can someone please help me understand the phrase "melt wire experiments" as used at the AVR fuel testing analysis and maybe why the such a choice of phraising. I would aso appreciate if I co...
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Any ideas about the causes of the incident at the new Australian research reactor (OPAL) where some fuel plates in some of the assemblies were found to be elevated? I.e., translated vertically upwards...
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I'm writing a paper on Thorium utilization in nuclear reactors.
In this connection I'm looking for figures which describe the neutron capture and neutron fission cross sections over a wide energy r...
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Why do alpha gloveboxes require so much shielding? Do alpha particle interactions create high energy electrons which produce Bremsstrahlung radiation or is it the high activity producing greater qua...
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I was reading a bit on General Atomics homepage and found this.
http://gt-mhr.ga.com/graphites_all.html [http://gt-mhr.ga.com/graphites_all.html]>
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Hi there,
I'm looking for an algorithm which describes the numeric solution to solve the diffusion equation (1D or 2D).
I've taken a look on some text book such as Hamilton and Henry ones but I didn...
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http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...taic-10.1.html [http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-betavoltaic-10.1.html]>
I cam across this article. It is horribly written from a scienti...
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I hear a lot of talk about the law from teh 70's passed by Congress that forbade the reprocessing of commercial SNF. In my Radioactive Waste Management class today, the professor (who is a CHP/PE who ...
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I was reading laws and such about the use of radiation producing machines and came up with the question: might it be possible to build and test an accelerator segment being exempt of such regulation i...
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It's part of my homework to find an analytical solution to a slab reactor with a reflector. The setup of the core is two slabs of equal thickness (-a to 0 and another 0 to +a) but different values for...
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I have a problem, something that I should know but slipped through the cracks.
I have posted this in another thread but I will re-post it here in truncate. the other thread is http://www.physicsfo...
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In most high temperature gas cooled reactor concepts it seems like helium is the prefered gas. But what makes helium a better chooise than nitrogen?
And when on the topic of gas cooled graphite mo...
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I know radioactive isotopes are used in RTG's in satelites and space probes. But are there any specific reason why they are not used in laptops, cellphones and other electronic equipment?
From a e...
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Why are all of the reactor core rod assemblies I see in an overall hexagonal arrangement with rods of uniform cross section (I assume due to modularity and mass production benefits)? Could not some a...
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i have desided to make a miniature nuclear reactor as my science project .i beg the helps from all physicsforum members.............
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