@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.
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Paul P.H. Wilson⚛
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Paul P.H. Wilson⚛
@gonuke
Nuclear engr prof, S/W developer, energy analyst (he/him/his). My postings here are my own & do not necessarily represent my employer. @gonuke.bsky.social
Madison, WI 53711 Inscrit le Temmuz 2007
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Reality: Chain reactions happen too fast to be controlled easily through control rods alone. Fast, passive means are used, exploiting the fact that fission is most likely with “slow” (thermal) neutrons, not the “fast” ones emitted by fissioning U235.
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The purpose of education is to tell the truth, right?
Not always. Sometimes it's to tell you a simplified fib, a not-quite-truth that almost explains things and prepares you for the truth as an adult.
This is a Lie-To-Children. Let's list a few, and you can add your own…
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@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.
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@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".
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Trump on Rogan talking about how large LWRs in the US are too big. He points out that France did it right by building lots of small ones. This is interesting because France really built lots of large ones very similar to the ones in Georgia. They just built a bunch in a row.
America 2100@America_2100
Incredible. Trump is at the top of his game. Listen to him discuss the regulatory challenges that American nuclear plants face and the advantages of French nuclear design.
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I did my part to #FillTheHill this morning - come and help out our department with your own contribution l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%…
Wisconsin Alumni@WisAlumni
WAKE UP and smell the FUNds! Pour yourself a cup of flamingo fuel and join the flamingo foolery! ☕️🦩uwflamingos.com/wisalumni24 #UWflamingos
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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.
Titans of Nuclear@NuclearTitans
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.
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Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ retweeté
Things are getting real. Special props to @NA_YGN and @UWMadisonNEEP for getting nuclear energy front and center on @CollegeGameDay and @FOXSports Big Noon Kickoff 🏈⚛️
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Oklo’s CFO - a man with 30 years in the energy business, most with BP - was interviewed during last month’s EnerCom gathering in Denver.
A major portion of the crowd was from oil & gas industry.
The conference organizers have posted video of the interview for a limited time.
LTF
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You’re overthinking the question.
The quote says “using water to cool reactors instead of of sodium”
TerraPower’s Natrium design uses sodium to cool the reactor (actually to transfer heat from the reactor) instead of water.
Though both have significant history, water cools the overwhelming majority of operating reactors
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OKURRR @MichelleObama!!!!!!!!! She didn’t come to play tonight!!!!!!!!!! #DNC
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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
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New paper alert:
Contrastive Machine Learning with Gamma Spectroscopy Data Augmentations for Detecting Shielded Radiological Material Transfers mdpi.com/2913658 #mdpimathematics via @MathematicsMDPI
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@LaneNuclear Chocolate Shoppe has the best ice cream in Madison, and many vegan flavors
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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
WMTV 15 News@wmtv15news
UW-Madison is celebrating its 175th anniversary Tuesday with an event that recognizes the launch of new technology to fight cancer. wmtv15news.com/2024/06/25/shi…
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Paul P.H. Wilson⚛ retweeté
Don't miss #FastestPathToZero's @deniadjokic, @AnnV_H & @ToddAllen5 at the #ANSannual session: Integrating Socially Led Co-Design into Consent-Based Siting of Interim Storage Facilities w/ @kuhika @gonuke & Hank C. Jenkins-Smith.
TOMORROW (6/19) at 8AM PDT in Banyan C.
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@JSEllenberg You must be one of those upstart progressive newcomers
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This article suggests that supporters of more housing are upending traditional Madison. But what’s traditional in Madison is that housing is affordable. If we don’t build, we risk losing that.
The Capital Times@CapTimes
Opinion | Does zoning furor suggest Madison is becoming two cities? captimes.com/opinion/paul-f…
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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
Lion Hirth@LionHirth
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...
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Super Bowl halftime analysis has the same guy sitting at both ends of the desk!
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Love seeing the Pegasus lab on @WisconsinOnBTN tonight! Go Badgers! @gonuke
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@nuclear94 But apparently you may be qualified to be chair of a department of biomedical AI 🤷♂️
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Look predatory conference people, if I have not responded to the first few batches of your emails, I’m not going to respond to the 10th batch. No, I’m not going to speak on Artificial Intelligence In BioMedical Applications because I have never done anything with AI in biomedical
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