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PhysicsForums Nuclear engineering journals?  
06:42 31-Aug-06   [Replies: 4, Views: 559]    By: Unnamed
Im looking through what nuclear engineering/nuclear power journals I have online acess to through my university and I find these ones Annals of nuclear energy Journal of nuclear material Nuclear ...
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PhysicsForums Which is more efficient: Nuclear Q  
17:28 26-Aug-06   [Replies: 12, Views: 774]    By: Unnamed
Which is more efficient, nuclear power using enriched uranium and light water or unenriched uranium and heavy water? and by efficient I mean uses the least materials and energy for maximum energy o...
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PhysicsForums Destroying An Asteroid.  
17:25 21-Aug-06   [Replies: 165, Views: 13966]    By: Unnamed
They say if we needed to destroy and asteroid headed for Earth the fastest easiest way is witha nuclear bomb. If we used it it would destroy it but it would create thousands of pieces falling to Eart...
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PhysicsForums Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology  
12:27 9-Aug-06   [Replies: 3, Views: 357]    By: Unnamed
Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology Technical Group (ANS) http://anst.ans.org/ Please check it out. If you're a Nuclear Engineer, please get involved in ANS and ANST, if you're not already. ...
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PhysicsForums Space Nuclear Conference 2007  
16:09 2-Aug-06   [Replies: 7, Views: 690]    By: Unnamed
Space Nuclear Conference 2007 (SNC '07) Embedded Topical Meeting at the 2007 ANS Annual Meeting June 24-28, 2007 • Boston, MA CFP will hopefully be out soon, and as time goes on there'll be m...
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PhysicsForums Can an analytical solution for PRKE be found with ramp reactivity ?  
10:21 14-Jul-06   [Replies: 4, Views: 476]    By: Unnamed
Hi there, Before i state what my actual question is, let me give some background on some work i have done on this. I have been trying to solve the 0-D PRKE transient problem for a step and a ramp i...
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PhysicsForums Final storage containing spent HTR fuel elements  
21:25 12-Jul-06   [Replies: 3, Views: 294]    By: Unnamed
can anyone help me with the following problem: I have been asked to estimate the rise in temperature in the salt in a final storage containing spent HTR-fuel elements in a time span of 100 years. Give...
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PhysicsForums waste  
02:21 12-Jul-06   [Replies: 5, Views: 331]    By: Unnamed
One of the main arguments that greens use against nuclear power is the waste factor, and how we have no real solution to this problem I was wondering what your take on the situation is? how long i...
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PhysicsForums Numerical Nuclear Reactor  
17:34 17-Jun-06   [Replies: 18, Views: 917]    By: Unnamed
This is a developing area in the nuclear industry involving large scale multiphysics computation. For the past several years Argonne National Laboratory and Purdue University have been supported by...
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PhysicsForums fusion scientists  
02:14 10-Jun-06   [Replies: 5, Views: 635]    By: Unnamed
Quick question. Are physicists and engineers who work on designing fusion reactors generally well versed in both inertial confinement fusion and magnetic confinement fusion, or are they two separate ...
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PhysicsForums Nuclear Demolition...  
08:59 6-Jun-06   [Replies: 0, Views: 6]    By: Unnamed
Any nuclear physicists here ever witnessed a tower demolitioned, 'pulled' by nuclear charges? Reference: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...51210315608217...
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PhysicsForums How does Cherenkov radiation work?  
11:11 5-Jun-06   [Replies: 8, Views: 531]    By: Unnamed
Hi. The way understand it, if a charged particle passes through a medium, it disrupts the EM field in that medium. And that causes the medium's electrons to emit photons in order to restore equilibri...
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PhysicsForums Separation of Isotopes by Laser Excitation  
15:31 31-May-06   [Replies: 5, Views: 415]    By: Unnamed
Is this for real??? http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...524888448.html...
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PhysicsForums Nuclear waste to glass logs  
06:15 26-May-06   [Replies: 5, Views: 591]    By: Unnamed
I was watching this news program about nuclear waste treatment plants in which the nuclear waste is somehow turned into glass logs. Would someone mind explaining this process-how would you turn nucle...
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PhysicsForums Nuclear fusion waste products  
16:29 17-May-06   [Replies: 16, Views: 2215]    By: Unnamed
I have managed to find out that waste products from fusion reactions are far less dangerous than those from traditional fission reactions but i cannot find anywhere that states what the waste products...
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PhysicsForums Existance of  
01:50 12-May-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 23]    By: Unnamed
when we are discussing matter, could it not be postulated that it is indeed the transfer of quarks that are causing the formation of antiparticles (and the conversion of protons to neutrons) with i...
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PhysicsForums Newb in nuclear  
11:59 3-May-06   [Replies: 16, Views: 576]    By: Unnamed
I am new to nuclear. you could answer me one question : why do people say "fission", I thank you...
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PhysicsForums Science history of fusion?  
07:01 3-May-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 377]    By: Unnamed
Hey, From a Philosophy of Science angle, I'm trying to argue why concepts (say, scientific hypotheses) survive even when they don't seem to be succesful. I thought a great example would be fusion....
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PhysicsForums Nuclear Power plant question  
16:40 1-May-06   [Replies: 4, Views: 752]    By: Unnamed
What safety systems are there to prevent a LOCA?? (Loss Of coolant Accident) I've googled but nothing has surfaced that relates to LOCA....
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PhysicsForums Chernobyl 20th anniversary.  
18:54 29-Apr-06   [Replies: 2, Views: 442]    By: Unnamed
I am sure everyone alredy knew, since it has been in the news and all, but I have seen the link below become quite popular on the internet. The thing is, the same people that post this link, argue agi...
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PhysicsForums electron / muon  
22:32 23-Apr-06   [Replies: 32, Views: 1095]    By: Unnamed
I was actually pondering the existence of modern electronics, and the ability of a magnetic generator which applies a force to move electrons in a copper wire. As another energy source is used to turn...
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PhysicsForums At what eV will electrons induce Be-10 decay?  
20:39 19-Apr-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 326]    By: Unnamed
Nuclear-powered spaceflight is the obvious choice for this century, but the few safe-choice fuels have little experimental documentation .... Be-10 might be the best at 556KeV and half-life of 1.51...
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PhysicsForums NRDC's position on Nuclear Energy  
02:09 19-Apr-06   [Replies: 3, Views: 252]    By: Unnamed
Today I went to see a presentation by a speaker from the National Resources Defence Council on global warming, and they mentioned renewable energy but neglected talking at all about nuclear energy. T...
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PhysicsForums Career Advice  
19:45 18-Apr-06   [Replies: 10, Views: 647]    By: Unnamed
I have a question concerning a career move. I have a chance to switch from the nuclear industry to the aerospace industry. I am just wondering if this is smart or not. Based on the current events taki...
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PhysicsForums "nuclear reactor physics" by Weston Stacey  
15:06 17-Apr-06   [Replies: 7, Views: 735]    By: Unnamed
I just bought it and started reading it. Anybody know the book ? Opinions, remarks ? I might have a few questions when reading it, are some people prepared to discuss it ? As a first question, a...
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