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How did Enrico Fermi compute when the Chicago Pile-1 nuclear reactor would become critical?

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Destroying Nuclear Waste with Neutrons?

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In a civil nuclear reaction, how the very first nuclear fission *starts* : is it spontaneous, or is it induced by another mechanism?

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Which frame of reference is used for rest mass calculation?

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How is energy actually extracted from fission?

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Solution of diffusion equation for 2 infinite slabs reactor

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Can uranium-233 mixed with natural uranium be used as a replacement for light-enriched uranium?

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Would neutron moderator anisotropy improve nuclear reactor performance?

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What is the exponential (or geometric) rule (or law) for uranium enrichment?

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What are the chemical properties of uranium-233 that makes it a more efficient fuel than uranium 235?

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What would happen if the fuel rods in a nuclear reactor were completely depleted?

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For Fermi's CP-1 experiments, why didn't they use much smaller slugs of natural uranium?

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Is fuel pellets a cylinder shape to decrease the critical mass?

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What limits the size of a nuclear power generator?

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Why doesn't the water in a nuclear reactor become radioactive?

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How do cycling moltant salt reactors do nuclear fission?

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Does the equivalent dose of radiation have the same half-life as the radioactive material?

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How much faster does induced fission in a typical reactor occur than spontaneous fission in nature?

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Radioactive decay curve

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How do nuclear fuel rods get "spent"? Why can't you just throw neutrons at them?

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How does light water prevent criticality of natural uranium even as it is outside the zirconium cladding?

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What happens to all the stolen neutrons in nuclear reactor?

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Where does the negative electrode come from in an HB11 fusion reactor?

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Do all radioactive isotopes and compounds exhibit photoluminesce?

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What is Fermi age? What does it represent?

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What determines whether a water-cooled nuclear reactor has a positive or negative void coefficient?

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What is the origin of radioactivity that appears *sometimes* in rivers close to a nuclear plant?

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Radioactivity and half life

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What is exact *average* energy released by uranium fission?

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How to make the connection between the *energy* released by the fission of uranium and the *power* of a nuclear plant?

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