The other day I took note of the fact that the U.S. does not recycle its spent nuclear fuel. This struck me as very wasteful. Could it be recycled at some later date? Will we run out of Uranium in ...
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Our "safety analysis for nuclear power plants" professor asked for an FMEA worksheet and i used some of the malfucntions mentioned here [http://www.cti-simulation.com/ctisimulation/PWR.htm]>...
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I recently read about Cohens challange to go on national tv against any nucler critic and eat as much Plutonium oxide in weight as the opponet eats caffeine.
Ld50 for caffeine is around 13 grams. B...
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I can't find where do we get the starting neutron(s) for the chain reaction in the reactor. I'm aware that then the splitted atom emits enough(in fact even too much?) neutrons to selfsustai...
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From what I hear Uranium miners are constantly under threat from radiation gas which is released from Uranium mines.
What I learned before is that there are 3 types of radiation. Alpha (helium), B...
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Here's part of an email I just got about this week's seminar at my university.
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My teacher said that if an isotope has a neutron to proton ratio that is greater than 1.2 it is radio active, but he said there is one exception when the ratio is lower than 1.2 .. something about the...
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I live in Saskatchewan, which has the world's largest and richest Uranium mines (producing 35% of the world's uranium from deposits as rich as 25%). But at present rates of extraction, the known r...
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I am plotting the in-hour equation. For the delayed neutron fraction, I was thinking of using a weighted dnf for the particular U fuel enrichment of interest, ie combination of U235 & U238 dnfs, ...
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Can anyone hepl me with this?I need some web resource,to start learning from scratch....
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I am not sure why the Pebble Bed modular reactor (PBMR) is being touted as the great solution to problems with nuclear power. It uses a once through, virtually non-reprocessible fuel. It produces a hi...
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This is not a very comforting new. It appears that one of the ceramic material used for storing nuclear wastes deteorates faster [http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070108/full/070108-6.html]> than first...
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Hi,
I'm a bit confused with the Wigner effect concept. This effect is normally associated to damages in moderator material typically graphite.
But metallic cladding of the fuel element is also expos...
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I was wondering if nuclear power is being used in pushing and thrusting Space Rockets when launching out from the earth?
Cheers.
Amir Fahd....
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There's been another small spate of news articles in the past couple of weeks about Thorium, due to its safer and more environmentally friendly characteristics in comparison to Uranium.
I'm wonderi...
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Submarine propulsion
Regarding nuclear powered submarines, they produce electric energy through the use of a generator that is being powered by steam from a “boiler” –for simplicity-
Would this en...
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How would one acquire an isotopically pure sample of an element? Are some available for direct purchase, or would it have to be done in-house with some sort of large centrifuge apparatus? (Im thinking...
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There is already a thread on the Prospects of Nuclear Energy in the US, so I thought I would add one on the international scene.
IAEA maintains a policy board - http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/in...
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Hey ,
1-What is exactly the difference between the Burnup rate and Consumption rate??
2-Why do most authorities usually use the term of Burnup rate while the consumption rate it seems to be mor...
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Hey there ,
It's known that metalic U was uesed as a fuel in certain types of reactors. What I 'd like to know :
1-Which type of reactor use metalic Uranium ?
2-Is Uranium metal used nowdays a...
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Hey there ,
1-I wonder why PU-239 is basically used in nuclear destructive weapons, while U-33, U-35,U-38 (with Energy more than 1 Mev) are fissionable materials as well??!!
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Does anyone know how to calculate the specific activity [Ci/g] for radionuclides from halflife times? (using to calculate activity, sources are encapsulated and cannot be opened)
Or, does anyone kn...
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Hey there ,
I wonder If there 's any graduated or undergraduated who studies Nuclear engineering in MIT. I 'd like to know their text books and other stuffs about this department . Please contact ...
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I have tryed to look into ITER and tokamak reactors latest updated information online, and cannot find any real specifics on it's latest progress. Does anyone know of where we are with producing susta...
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Hey ,
Actually I need someone to recommend some useful web sites that would contians animations about Nuclear well logging and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging to help me in my presentations . ...
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