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- Geek Trivia: (Melt)down to Earth
- On Nov. 29, 1955, Experimental Breeder Reactor #1 (EBR-1) outside Arco, ID became the first reactor on the planet to suffer a meltdown, thereby inaugurating the era of nuclear reactor accidents. Now, to be fair, the meltdown was only partial, was due to operator error, and occurred at a time...
- Tags: Meltdown, Reaction, U235, Oklo Reactor, Supply Chain, Business Operations, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
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- Simulation Pays Off for AECL and Its Customers
- Atomic Energy of Canada Limited AECL builds and services nuclear reactors all over the world. The company wanted to minimize reactor down time and worker exposure to radiation. Its challenge was to meet cost and delivery terms of proposals and sell reactor services in a very competitive market. Company imported...
- Tags: UGS Corp., Siemens AG, Marketing Research, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Reactors (exe)
- Your mission is to decommission 25 old space stations. The problem is that no one has been inside them for many years. To decommission each station you must destroy its reactor cores. Once you have done this the station will explode. You will be given a modified ship that has...
- Tags: Station, Problem
- Software downloads 2006-10-02
- Reactors (German) (exe)
- Your mission is to decommission 25 old space stations. The problem is that no one has been inside them for many years. To decommission each station you must destroy its reactor cores. Once you have done this the station will explode. You will be given a modified ship that has...
- Tags: Station, Problem, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-12-04
- Reactors (Italian) (exe)
- Your mission is to decommission 25 old space stations. The problem is that no one has been inside them for many years. To decommission each station you must destroy its reactor cores. Once you have done this the station will explode. You will be given a modified ship that has...
- Tags: Station, Problem, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-12-04
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Technology Plays a Critical Role in Bringing Safe and Sustainable Power to the World
- The initial rationale behind PBMR is simple - there is a huge global requirement for sustainable energy. PBMR wanted to develop a nuclear reactor capable of providing safe and sustainable power. The challenge was to build a demonstration unit by 2011. The PBMR solution is a High Temperature Reactor HTR,...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Siemens AG, Product Lifecycle Management, PBMR Solution, Product Marketing, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Geek Trivia: (Melt)down to Earth
- Neutron moderators and control rodsGood article, I haven't thought about this stuff since I left the nuclear power world about 10 years ago. Just a quibble about the moderators and control rods. This could be totally different in the commercial world.The most common neutron moderator is pure water. The hydrogen...
- Tags: jeffarndt@..., reactor, rod, moderator, control rod
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa Adopts Windows HPC Technology Over Linux
- Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Pty Limited PBMR was established in 1999 with the intention to develop and market small-scale, high-temperature energy systems locally and internationally. PBMR required an integrated, reliable, and easy to use and administer high performance computing platform rather than the existing isolated Linux platform. PBMR deployed 17...
- Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, South Africa, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Leadership, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Management
- Case studies 2008-06-17
- Geek Trivia: Energetic pursuits
- Watt's Going On?Re the Geek Trivia Quibble, I'd have to throw in my lot with reader Ward. NASA's ALRH is defined as a "15 watt heater," (http://tinyurl.com/aeqb5) and a watt is uncontroversially defined as a "unit of power," 34 grams of p-238 being utilized as the source of that...
- Tags: alrh, apollo, career, gfisher@..., Idaho National Engineering, la triviata, power, quibble, reactor, Shippingport Atomic Power Station, watt
- Discussion threads 2005-08-03
- Reactor Toolbar (exe)
- Search faster in Internet and get useful links like games, dates, chat, shopping. Get the freshest content delivered directly to your browser, no matter where you are on the Web. Check out all the favorite places on the Web, and share your top links. Use the chat-box to connect in...
- Tags: Web, Toolbar, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-08-15
- KitoX Toolset (zip)
- KitoX Toolset application for AutoCAD consists of couple different command sets and makes drafting work faster and easier. Do not guess about it's utilities and facilities. Just try this program. KitoX SmartTools is a set of reactor based thinking tools. Program inserts special objects into drawing with rules, how these...
- Tags: Object, KitoX SmartTools, Productivity
- Software downloads 2006-03-28
- Fun Freight (exe)
- Grab incoming projectiles and launch them with accuracy to make progress in this extraordinary game of finesse. Collect energy, in form of projectiles, to make the speed of the track accelerate and to get the reactor going with fuel while you explore 3 totally unique environments. You will, during the...
- Tags: Adventure, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-03-06
- LabelRoom (zip)
- LabelRoom is a Visual LISP reactor based program to perform a dynamic name/area label of a room. LabelRoom will link two objects one MTEXT and one CURVE which has AREA property together, the MTEXT will contain two lines First line shows the room name and the second line will show...
- Tags: Curve, LabelRoom
- Software downloads 2006-05-02
- Have we reached the end of the IT era?
- Is this the end of the IT era? What's next?HP thinks "Business Technology" is the next stage, as I wrote in my blog post: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=446Do you agree? What will this mean for the structure of IT or BT departments?Mark Five is Next!!based on encoding of human thinking, the Hewlett-Packard supercomputer...
- Tags: Middleware, Jason Hiner, Hewlett-Packard Co., information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- Kintecus (zip)
- The Kintecus simulation software package has been cited in several hundred peer review, high impact factor journals. It is modeling software to simulate the chemical kinetics and equilibrium of combustion (isobaric/isochoric), nuclear, catalyst reactor CSTR and enzyme reactions. Kintecus can also run NASA Chemkin models without programming or linking. Software...
- Tags: Software, Analysis, Modeling, Research & Development, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Management
- Software downloads 2006-10-03
- Better coding with the Model-Glue:Unity ColdFusion application framework
- ColdFusiondevelopers have been evolving quickly over the last few years. Best practicesand design patterns have come to the forefront, with several differentframeworks emerging to help the community. Model-Glue is aModel-View-Controller MVC framework that was released in 2005. It has rapidlygained popularity in the ColdFusion CF community due to its ease...
- Tags: Brian Kotek, ColdSpring, MG:U, Model-Glue, Model-Glue:Unity ColdFusion, Reactor
- Technical articles 2006-09-28
- Bloxter (dmg)
- Bloxter is a fun arcade/puzzle game with 3D graphics, falling blocks and over 30 unique boards. Play in 'Puzzle Mode' with classic gameplay and no distractions, or choose the challenging 'Arcade Mode' featuring bonus lamps and alien monsters. Your job as a bloxter is to produce energy in a block...
- Tags: Block, Bloxter, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2007-05-21
- Bloxter (exe)
- Bloxter is a fun arcade/puzzle game with 3D graphics, falling blocks and over 30 unique boards. Play in 'Puzzle Mode' with classic gameplay and no distractions, or choose the challenging 'Arcade Mode' featuring bonus lamps and alien monsters. Your job as a bloxter is to produce energy in a block...
- Tags: Block, Bloxter, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2007-05-21
- Nuclear Science Group Develops Eclipse-Based App on Linux
- In what appears to be a coup for the IBM-born Eclipse open source Java development framework, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization Ansto has started using it to build a Linux-based desktop application for controlling laboratory instrumentation. Having been through the design phase, development of the application - called...
- Tags: Instrumentation, Eclipse, International Data Group, Gumtree Application, Linux, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Desktops, UNIX, Operating Systems, Java, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Programming Languages
- Case studies
- Novell Case Study: Westinghouse Electric Company
- The Westinghouse Electric Company enjoys a long-standing and impressive reputation for its commitment to excellence in commercial nuclear reactor technology. The company wanted to facilitate a smooth, non-disruptive transition from a very stable UNIX cluster to an equally stable Linux cluster and improve I/O throughput performance for demanding batch processing...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Electric Company, Linux, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
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