Category: More Advanced
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Controlling Nuclear Fission
Every induced fission event produces two or more neutrons. These neutrons can go on to induce more fission, or they can be absorbed without producing […]
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Production and Fission of Transuranic Elements In A Nuclear Reactor
If you are wondering where I am going with this it is because it is relevant to nuclear weapons proliferation, thorium fuel cycles and the […]
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More About Neutrons
This is another background post and I am going to explain a bit more about the interaction of neutrons with matter. Since neutrons do not […]
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Cs-137 in Spent Fuel as it leaves the reactor
I am now going to get a rough idea of how much caesium 137 there is in spent nuclear fuel. One reason for choosing Cs-137 […]
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Production and Decay of Fission Products
We are going to assume that the fissile product has one mode of decay and does not do anything naughty, such as undergo neutron capture. […]
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A Rough Model of a Nuclear Reactor
This model is very rough however it gives some idea about power and energy output from a nuclear reactor which I will use in later […]
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Uranium Enrichment Formula
This is another one of those background information posts deriving the mass balances for uranium enrichment. Let us consider the following enrichment scenario: We have […]
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Secular and Transient Equilibrium Formula
I will give the full derivation since although it is quite long and looks complicated it uses nothing more than A-level mathematics. Despite this the […]
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Secular Equilibrium
The reason for this post is to help people understand ‘secular equilibrium’. The reason for people interest is mainly due to this report which is […]
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Thorium and Proliferation
I will probably write about the Thorium cycle a bit more at some later point. There seems to be a growing number of people who […]
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