• In astrophysics, the nuclear timescale is an estimate of the lifetime of a star based solely on its rate of fuel consumption. Along with the thermal and...
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    a realization of a time-like argument based on a dynamical theory Nuclear timescale, an estimate of the lifetime of a star based solely on its rate of...
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    Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale...
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    construction timescales and capital financing for nuclear stations. Cost estimates take into account station decommissioning and nuclear waste storage...
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    Harrison J. (1958). "Time and its measurement: From the stone age to the nuclear age". Cleveland. 65. New York: The World Publishing Company. Bibcode:1958tmfs...
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    Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion...
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    Commission on Stratigraphy Astronomical chronology Galactic year Nuclear timescale Precession Sidereal time Other units of time Instant Flick Shake Jiffy...
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    In nuclear physics, a nuclear chain reaction occurs when one single nuclear reaction causes an average of one or more subsequent nuclear reactions, thus...
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    from the new nuclear construction programme, citing building costs that were higher than it had anticipated and a longer construction timescale caused by...
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    France has been nuclear power, with a generation of 379.5 TWh in 2019 and a total electricity production of 537.7 TWh. In 2018, the nuclear share was 71...
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    Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), is a spectroscopic technique...
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    since its natural abundance is nearly 100%. Because the nuclear magnetic resonance timescale is rather slow, compared to other spectroscopic methods,...
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    be a limit of nuclear existence because several fundamental nuclear processes (such as vibration and rotation) occur on this timescale. For more massive...
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    natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The conditions under which a natural nuclear reactor...
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    Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a class of small nuclear fission reactors, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation...
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    Wylfa nuclear power station (Welsh: Atomfa'r Wylfa) is a Magnox nuclear power station undergoing decommissioning. Wylfa is situated west of Cemaes Bay...
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    Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable...
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  • Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion (also antiproton-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion) is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon...
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    €400 million of further provisions, taking the cost overrun to €2.7 billion. The timescale slipped from June 2012 to the end of 2012. In December 2011, TVO announced...
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    construction timescales and capital financing for nuclear plants. Cost estimates also need to take into account plant decommissioning and nuclear waste storage...
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    assumptions about construction timescales and capital financing for nuclear plants. Analysis of the economics of nuclear power must take into account who...
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    construction timescales and capital financing for nuclear plants. Cost estimates also need to take into account plant decommissioning and nuclear waste storage...
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  • naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, surface water, tides, wind waves and geothermal heat Nuclear power, the atomic energy harvested...
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  • reactors and advanced nuclear technologies. A three step process was introduced: Step 1: initiates GDA and agrees scope and timescales, identifying any immediate...
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    fission. These states are 'metastable' – a nucleus is this state may, on timescales between nanoseconds and microseconds, either decay back to the ground...
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    Nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) is a family of transcription factor protein complexes that controls transcription...
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  • Enriched uranium is a critical component for both civil nuclear power generation and military nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency attempts...
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  • power would increase exponentially on millisecond or even microsecond timescales – much too fast to be controlled with current or near-future technology...
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  • kinetic energy content at its current luminosity rate. Along with the nuclear and free-fall (aka dynamical) time scales, it is used to estimate the length...
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