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@Jordan_W_Taylor This is not true. About 0.7% of the neutrons are emitted at times up to 80 s after the fission event. These delayed neutrons are the key! Fast reactor exist and can still be controlled for this reason.
@whatisnuclear France's history of reactor size is very similar to the US, except for increased standardization, and the EPR is about the same size as an AP1000.
@whatisnuclear Instead of saying "this is interesting", why don't we just say "this is wrong". Too many of his falsehoods, misconceptions are traded as "interesting".
I had a great time covering a variety of topics in my visit to the @NuclearTitans podcast. Thanks for inviting me to talk about my own journey, my research, and my outreach interests.
Listen in to our latest episode featuring Paul Wilson, Chair of the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This episode is another installment in our Titans of Teaching series, which highlights standout professors.
6 days, 2096 miles of driving (~45 hours behind the wheel), $283 in tolls, $317 in gas, 5 return trips across the GW Bridge, 1 meal with my sister/nephew in central Indiana... Operation Move Moira is complete without incident
New paper alert:
Contrastive Machine Learning with Gamma Spectroscopy Data Augmentations for Detecting Shielded Radiological Material Transfers https://t.co/JEvq0BSqKl #mdpimathematics via @MathematicsMDPI
It was great to participate in the @UWMadison #175 celebration at @shinefusion in Janesville yesterday. We discussed how @UWMadisonNEEP played a role in the ideas that led to this new exciting technology
UW-Madison is celebrating its 175th anniversary Tuesday with an event that recognizes the launch of new technology to fight cancer. https://t.co/aT7MVzapXu
Do none of the commenters (or the OP) want to acknowledge that this a graph of the *SHARE* of generation and not the absolute generation? Nuclear energy, for example, generates roughly as much today on a global basis as it ever has
In terms of share of global electricity output, coal peaked in 1905.
Hydro peaked 100 years ago. Oil before the, well, oil crisis.
Nuclear peaked in the 1990s and gas, maybe, has just passed its peak.
And then there is the yellow line...