#NuclearEngineering

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2023-07-28

Nuclear criticality safety

Making "The Blue Flash:" Reconstructing fatal atomic accident
In 1946 radioactive Manhattan Project component killed a scientist when his screwdriver slipped
bbc.com/future/article/2023072
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

Demon core: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_co
T* ickling the Dragon's Tail: 1946 failed experiment to test exact point at which fissile material becomes critical

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2023-03-24

Scientists in China are now building on the same basic MSR technology developed at ORNL. The Chinese gov’t had a small, short-lived knowledge exchange program with ORNL. But most of the…intellectual property…is in the public domain.

“The real data mine is the thousands of published reports in 1960s and '70s that are found in the open literature," Forsberg says.

spectrum.ieee.org/china-closin

#nuclearpower #energy #MSR #OakRidge #nuclearengineering #innovation #USA #intellectualproperty

2022-11-15
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦nafnlaus@fosstodon.org
2022-11-09

@rmattila74 @rmattila74 What's challenging sbout 17x17, out of curiosity?

#LDR50 #Nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearEngineering

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