please help me in understanding the following scenarios:
1. how could one approach first criticality in practice?
2. what would happen if we start-up with full power conditions from first critic...
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I am interested in comparing the cost of nuclear energy with the costs of fossil fuel and renewable fuels for electric power generation.
The figures I have for fuel consumption are:
1. a 1000 mW...
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might be more expensive than uranium or plutonium, but storage costs and environmental impact and anti-nuke activism might be muted if there was an isotope of any element, say an isotope of iodine, th...
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The Health Physics Society is an excellent resource for information on radiation and radiation interactions.
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/cat47.html
The following FAQs have been deve...
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(A parallel discussion, on the politics and diplomacy, is going on here:
http://physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=145129)
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Apparently efforts to recover U from seawater was abandoned in the 1970s when studies concluded that it would cost about $1400 / lb. At the time, the spot price of U was about $40/lb.
If the cost ...
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Hi there,
Can anyone answer a few questions I have about chernobyl and related. I am doing some research on something related, and its hard to get good information about this. Here they are.
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I had heard about a nulcear reactor, that did not require a critical mass, and therefore did not have the possibility of Loss of coolant or meltdown.
a reactor that required power to run, so if you...
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I've been doing research into the field as a possible career, and I usually see careers in the post-Bachelor and post-Master's catagories, but not post-Doctorate. Is a Master's degree what's usually ...
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Does anyone know where I can get some in depth info on the various forms of nuclear waste i.e the actual elements/isotopes, how they decay and their half lives etc.
I'm in the process of writ...
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The IAEA publishes numerous technical documents many of which can be downloaded as pdf files.
IAEA Light Water Cooled Reactor Project
Nuclear Power Technology Development Section - TECDOCS
http:/...
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Hi everyone, been lurking on here for some time, these forums are very interesting!
Anyways, since I havent been able to dig up this sort of info anywhere else, perhaps some of you may be able to h...
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I ran across an interesting video in the video section of Google, this is the link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...tional+nuclear
It caught my eye because it was from Hippie News Network.
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Calls like this one to make international databases of nuclear "signatures" available publicly make sense to me as a way to help deter theft and transfer of nuclear materiel:
http://www.nat...
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I was reading about the undergraduate research opportunity at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and I ran across this fun flash game. It simulates a tokamak, and you can control the power used for h...
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I apologize that me first post is such a silly one.
I am trying to solve problem 1.2 in Stacey. It asks for the probability of a 1 MeV neutron slowing to thermal. I can determine the number of co...
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There has been a lot of speculation over whether North Korea has nuclear weapons and now they are announcing that they plan on testing. I'm a software engineer and I know that no matter how meticulous...
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Recently the radation physics class I am taking reviewed decay and I wondered how beta minus decay and electron capture can both emit neutrinos. I tried asking my professor, but I do not think I expla...
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I have a question on accelerator driven systems.
From everything I read this sounds like the perfect kind of reactor, minimise waste, possible to burn existing waste, no risk of meltdown and so on....
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I thought this would be an interesting video for physics majors to watch:
underground nuclear explosion
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I've to choose one, material science is one of my favourite subjects, but i ignorethe nature of those 2 subjects in general and the profs aren't willing to say anything usefull...I'm confused because ...
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Sorry if this is wrong part of the board to post in....
I am taking a atomic-molcular physics class right now and we are suposed to hold a 25 minute presentation in 4 weeks on a hot topic in atomic...
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Consider a point in space r(vector) where the flux is isotropic; i.e., equal numbers of neutrons move into solid angles d(omega) about every direction omega.
a) Show that the net current J(r) is ze...
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In the context of detectors of gamma rays, electrons etc. Does the term 'gain of the detection system' mean the ratio of the number of registered counts per bombardment from radioactive source?...
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I am a Nuclear Engineering grad student who just started working toward my PhD. I was totally convinced with my decision to pursue a PhD until I recently was told that you can become overqualified by ...
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