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Cracks found at reactor at Hunterston B nuclear power station

Submitted by Lee Margetts on
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nuclear materials
nuclear energy
stochastic FE analysis
Monte Carlo Method
graphite
HPC
parallel computing

Perhaps some of those on this site have seen the news article on the BBC website yesterday about cracks appearing in the reactor at the Hunterston B nuclear power station. As the article states, cracking in the graphite bricks is predicted and the regulators are happy that the reactor is safe to operate.

ENERGY IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE - Italy Joins European Nuclear Power Revival

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on
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nuclear energy
grand challenges in engineering

Speaking of Grand Challenges, why we never talk of Energy in Imechanica? There are certainly mechanical implications. And Energy is top of the list at the www.engineeringchallenges.org project.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,druck-554969,00.html&…;

Italy Joins European Nuclear Power Revival

 

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