# Browse Dissertations and Theses - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering by Title

• (1980)
This thesis reports the effects that the scattering and absorption of photons have on the ability to produce tomographic images of an internal gamma-ray source distribution. Computer simulations of the photon-transport ...

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• (1999)
The helicon antenna sits remotely outside the vacuum system, so all shadowing and contamination problems which the other two sources exhibit are eliminated. Ionization fractions to the substrate of 51 +/- 10% with a ...

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• (2010-08-20)
Conventional 3-D external beam radiation therapy for breast cancer, although a vast improvement over traditional therapy, does not take into account respiratory motion. With breast cancer patients, this motion can expose ...

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• (1992)
The risk reduction potential of the class of artificial neural networks based on the Barto-Sutton architecture is established. The risk associated with nuclear power operations is characterized by sequences of discrete ...

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• (1973)

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• (1980)
A fuel pin failure model is developed and incorporated into a fast-running computer program. The model is designed to predict irradiated fuel-pin cladding rupture during a hypothetical transient-overpower (TOP) accident ...

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• (2012-02-06)
The Axial Offset Anomaly (AOA) is a major impediment to increases in reactor fuel performance preventing PWRs from operating with even more efficient core designs than they are at present. It is a phenomenon where boron ...

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• (2008)
The PMNIM is then used to study the transition to turbulence in Arnold-Beltrami-Childress (ABC) flows. These flows display the interesting phenomenon of heteroclinic cycles. The results are obtained for two wavenumbers: k ...

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• (2010-05-19)
In this dissertation, a new lattice Boltzmann model, called the artificial interface lattice Boltzmann model (AILB model), is proposed for the simulation of two-phase dynamics. The model is based on the principle of free ...

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• (1994)
Pu(VI) speciation and solubility with phosphate was examined at pH from 0.3 to 12.2, Pu(VI) concentrations from 5 $\times\ {\rm 10}\sp{-5}$ M to 1.3 $\times\ {\rm 10}\sp{-3}$ M and phosphate concentrations up to 0.6 M. ...

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• (1996)
High-volume air samplers were used to collect aerosol samples on Whatman 41 air filters at the Canadian air sampling stations Burnt Island, Egbert and Point Petre. Once collected, the samples were analyzed for trace elements ...

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• (1992)
Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) is an alternative approach to fusion power that offers the ability to burn advanced fuels like D-He$\sp3$ in a non-Maxwellian, high density core. These aneutronic reactions are ideal ...

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• (1976)

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• (2014-05-30)
This dissertation is aimed at nuclear-coupled thermal hydraulics stability analysis of a natural circulation lead cooled fast reactor design. The stability concerns arise from the fact that natural circulation operation ...

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• (2006)
It is hoped that results of this study are of value in demonstrating the safety features of current BWRs, and in improved design of future natural circulation BWR systems.

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• (1966)

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• (1998)
One of the key steps that needs to be addressed for the construction of a fusion reactor is the ability to contain the plasma. The use of superconducting magnets to produce the necessary magnetic field is one of the most ...

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• (1979)

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• (1984)
Previous theoretical work has suggested that Alfven waves may be related to the anomalous toroidal magnetic flux generation and extended (over classical expectations) discharge times observed in the reversed field pinch. ...

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• (1967)

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