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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:29:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What nuclear fission reactor design has the least environmental impact?...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/58571319</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[request book!!!...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/58534956</link>
<description><![CDATA[I need a book, please help me. Handbook for the Assessment of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Using Environmental Radionuclides thanks...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fusion energy gain factor...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/58389837</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More killed mining coal in Ukraine than killed by Chernobyl...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/58345970</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hazardous Material -- Petroleum...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/58152142</link>
<description><![CDATA[It finally happened. An ecological disaster right in the heart of the &quot;greens&quot; homeland--San Francisco. It's outrageous. The most ardent protectors of the environment couldn't stop it. N...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Contemporary issues in crit safety?...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/58079552</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Probability assessment...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/58189323</link>
<description><![CDATA[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)...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dropping Irradiated Hardware...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57966694</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Whats the holdup with Fusion Power?...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/58718575</link>
<description><![CDATA[You got temperature and/or pressure, and one simple atom to play with. What's the big deal?...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Melt wire experiments...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57894732</link>
<description><![CDATA[Can someone please help me understand the phrase &quot;melt wire experiments&quot; as used at the AVR fuel testing analysis and maybe why the such a choice of phraising. I would aso appreciate if I co...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian research reactor fuel problem...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57786375</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to find neutron capture and fission cross section...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57747629</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Alpha Gloveboxes...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57670183</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is this correct?...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/58039907</link>
<description><![CDATA[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]> (bolds added by me) Quote:...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Developing a simple program to solve the diffusion equation...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57560974</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Betavoltaic Laptop Fuel Cell...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57451944</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57302981</link>
<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[engineering red tape....]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57264170</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Neutron diffusion problem....]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57152127</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Accelerator Engineering...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/57088619</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why helium and not nitrogen?...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/56908371</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Radionuclides instead of batteries?...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/56865977</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Core Configuration?...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/56587323</link>
<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[miniature nuclear reactor as a project?...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/56542774</link>
<description><![CDATA[i have desided to make a miniature nuclear reactor as my science project .i beg the helps from all physicsforum members.............]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nuclear Generating Stations...]]></title>
<link>http://www.boardtracker.com/rss/thread/56496538</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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