Nuclear engineering is the branch of
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[Only admins are allowed to see this link]Nuclear fission[Only admins are allowed to see this link] is the disintegration of a susceptible (
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atom's nucleus into two different, smaller elements and other particles
including neutrons. Approximately 2.7 neutrons are released per
fission, which may cause additional fissions if enough fissionable
material is present. Nuclear fission is made by separating one atom or
combining two different atoms.
The common types of nuclear fission include thermal fission, which is fission caused by the absorption of a relatively slow
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Fast fission is fission caused by the absorption of a more energetic
neutron, with kinetic energy on the order of MeV. Also, in especially
heavy nuclei,
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least a very small chance of spontaneous fission occurring.
Generally, thermal fission is used in commercial reactors, though
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The United States gets about 19 % of its electricity from nuclear power.
[Only admins are allowed to see this link] Nuclear engineers in this field generally work, directly or indirectly, in the nuclear power industry or for
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reactor designs with passive safety features. Although government labs
research the same areas as industry, they also study a myriad of other
issues such as
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Nuclear Powerplant
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B-61 thermonuclear weapon
Nuclear medicine and medical physicsAn important field is
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among many others, medical physics provides most of modern medicine's
diagnostic capability along with providing many treatment options.
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X-Ray Image of a male skull
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan of a head
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PET taken with an ECAT Exact HR+ PET Scanner
Nuclear materials and nuclear fuelsNuclear materials research focuses on two main subject areas,
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nuclear fuels is crucial for obtaining increased efficiency from
nuclear reactors. Irradiation effects studies have many purposes, from
studying structural changes to reactor components to studying
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Radiation measurements and dosimetryNuclear engineers and radiological scientists are interested in the
development of more advanced ionizing radiation measurement and
detection systems, and using these to improve imaging technologies. This
includes detector design, fabrication and analysis, measurements of
fundamental atomic and nuclear parameters, and radiation imaging
systems, among other things.
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Nuclear engineering organizations
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