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PhysicsForums Fusion Vibration  
01:56 28-Sep-05   [Replies: 4, Views: 260]    By: Unnamed
If we made a custom levitating coil like this: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/3075/globe.html so that we could suspend a small Iron ball in the levitation coil. Next If we added two small...
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PhysicsForums Why not particle accelerators for fusion?  
19:00 25-Sep-05   [Replies: 19, Views: 622]    By: Unnamed
In the 1997 5th edition of the Halliday Resnick and Walker fund of Physics this question is asked about colliding two beams of deuterons directly toward each other as well as perhaps colliding deutero...
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PhysicsForums output of best betavoltaics per size?  
17:38 24-Sep-05   [Replies: 1, Views: 180]    By: Unnamed
does anyone know what power output the best current betavoltaics can produce per size per volume/type/radioactivity of fuel? Are they capable of size for size equaling a normal battery? and if not wha...
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PhysicsForums Atomic Dust  
17:56 20-Sep-05   [Replies: 3, Views: 193]    By: Unnamed
I wanted to do some research on Atomic dust. The process would take a metal and vaporize it by a high powered LASER in a vacuum and then allow the metal vapor to cool in the vacuum an then fall to ...
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PhysicsForums Recent developments in food irradiation?  
11:59 20-Sep-05   [Replies: 4, Views: 304]    By: Unnamed
I am find it amazing that removing some electrons from foods can preserve the food for a longer period of time. So I am just curious about some of the recent developments in food irradiation....
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PhysicsForums Latest Fusion Technique  
00:07 20-Sep-05   [Replies: 6, Views: 334]    By: Unnamed
a fellow physics major was explaining to me that the latest technique in fusion has to do with creating tritium rings and using them to create another ring, using that ring to create yet a third ring....
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PhysicsForums Fusion Power Resistance  
00:03 20-Sep-05   [Replies: 4, Views: 221]    By: Unnamed
Having been an avid movie watcher when I was younger, I've developed a sort of assumption that new power sources aren't very welcome in a country driven by oil economics. I understand a lot of the ...
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PhysicsForums National Ignition Facility (NIF)...  
21:44 15-Sep-05   [Replies: 5, Views: 287]    By: Unnamed
The genesis of this design as described to me is a single 980 nm Pump Diode which is fiber-optically split into 192 fiber-optical 'beam lines' using a Fiber Bragg Grating. The 'laser amplifiers' the...
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PhysicsForums Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI and I-NERI)  
21:16 14-Sep-05   [Replies: 0, Views: 127]    By: Unnamed
2004 Annual Reports Issued On May 27, 2005 the Department issued reports on its Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI) and International Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (I-NERI) programs. These...
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PhysicsForums Prometheus Woes  
23:19 12-Sep-05   [Replies: 5, Views: 459]    By: Unnamed
NASA grounds project at Knolls laboratory End of $65 million program leaves 150 employees hired for Prometheus work with uncertain futures By ERIC ANDERSON, Deputy business editor First publi...
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PhysicsForums PWRs  
17:27 11-Sep-05   [Replies: 2, Views: 257]    By: Unnamed
Hi I am fresh student of nuclear engineering. I want to know why it is so important to make such cumbersome models for corrosion product and fission product activity in primary coolants of LWRs. What...
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PhysicsForums regulating fusion reactions  
02:17 11-Sep-05   [Replies: 7, Views: 227]    By: Unnamed
This is my first post here, so I'm not entirely sure whether or not this topic warrants a new thread. I've just had a simple idea that I'd like to get some feedback on, from people who have a little m...
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PhysicsForums ORTEC Seminar  
14:31 7-Sep-05   [Replies: 0, Views: 108]    By: Unnamed
I was wondering if any body was going to be attending ORTEC’s seminar October the 4th and 5th in Oak Ridge Tennessee. I will be. Several topics will be discussed and several of ORTEC's systems experts...
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PhysicsForums Materials for Nuclear Reactor  
19:05 6-Sep-05   [Replies: 2, Views: 344]    By: Unnamed
Please briefly explain the Materials which are used in nuclear reactor. such canning material, moderator etc. ...
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PhysicsForums Thorium Reactor  
05:07 3-Sep-05   [Replies: 3, Views: 448]    By: Unnamed
http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmor...t or&id=77898 How significant is it?...
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PhysicsForums Creating a nuclear power plant  
09:06 28-Aug-05   [Replies: 6, Views: 357]    By: Unnamed
How long does it take for a nuclear power plant to be built and to have its first reactor come on line? Lets start the time line at basically when the permit is requested and end it when the first rea...
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PhysicsForums Uranium power/weight ratio in fission reactors  
09:32 26-Aug-05   [Replies: 3, Views: 208]    By: Unnamed
Hi, I have a couple of more questions for all the kind and learned people here. Are there any (approx) benchmarks for quantifying how much uranium ore (kg) is going to be rquired in order to ge...
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PhysicsForums Passive Reactors.  
16:23 22-Aug-05   [Replies: 17, Views: 603]    By: Unnamed
Could someone tell me and explain explain the theory behind passive reactors? I just read about the Toshiba 4S in Nuclear News when I got back to school (one of the only nuclear related perodicals in ...
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PhysicsForums Fusion?  
23:53 15-Aug-05   [Replies: 1, Views: 222]    By: Unnamed
I have been reading about fusors. The articles usually refer to aneutronic reactions as though they are fusion. But are they really? For example, the pB11 reaction yields He, but this is some sort ...
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PhysicsForums Abundance of deuterium vs tritium  
13:59 15-Aug-05   [Replies: 21, Views: 1748]    By: Unnamed
In a nuclear fusion reactor for generating electricity, would a deuterium-deuterium reaction be inferior to a deuterium-tritium reaction? If the latter is a superior mode of fusion, then obviously tha...
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PhysicsForums .CNF files conversion, SPEDAC Pro  
22:36 13-Aug-05   [Replies: 5, Views: 276]    By: Unnamed
I need to convert files in Canberra's file format .cnf to any other one supported by Ortec's Maestro, or even better, to a simple channel-counts file. I found this page: www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/p...
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PhysicsForums Heavy water ???  
18:30 12-Aug-05   [Replies: 6, Views: 288]    By: Unnamed
I ve read somewhere that the Nazis needed heavy water for their atom bomb. Isnt heavy water water with deuterium instead of hydrogen. So why is heavy water needed to make their project successful? Wer...
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PhysicsForums Questions on reactors and VASIMR  
16:36 2-Aug-05   [Replies: 13, Views: 871]    By: Unnamed
I'm doing a project on sending a team to Mars in the future and I was wondering if any of you nice people from the physics community might be able to give me a helping hand with a few questions. Fir...
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PhysicsForums Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in the Upper Atmosphere  
10:04 2-Aug-05   [Replies: 3, Views: 186]    By: Unnamed
All right, you're going to have to really humor me here. As far as I know, the only kind of 'cold' fusion that has ever been demonstrated to work is muon-catalyzed. The reason it isn't viable is t...
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PhysicsForums Focus Fusion Reactors  
20:44 1-Aug-05   [Replies: 1, Views: 201]    By: Unnamed
Could someone please give me a rough estimate as to what the mass of a 20MW focus fusion reactor might be, please. Seamo...
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