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Tutorial – Import Gmsh mesh in FEniCS
In this page you will find the procedure required to import a mesh created with Gmsh inside FEniCS. Eventhough the procedure is simple, sometimes the documentation is not very clear, therefore, i decided to group all the required information in order to accomplish this task, so that in future I will not struggling again in […]
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Tutorial – Gmsh Python API basics – Mesh creation
In this tutorial you will learn the very basic functions of Gmsh Python API. We will create a simple cylinder, we will define the physical surfaces, that are required for applying boundary conditions inside finite element codes and finally we will export the mesh in a format that can be read by FEniCS (.msh ASCII […]
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About TRIGA Experimental Nuclear Reactor
TRIGA is a multipurposes inherently safe nuclear reactor designed by General Atomics (Training – Research – Isotopes – General Atomics) presented to the public in 1955 at Geneva conference about peaceful use of atomic energy. Since then this reactor has been widely exploited, according to GA they installed 66 reactors in 24 countries. Before talking […]
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How long Uranium will last?
In energy sector often we hear about resource depletion, for example in Oil sector but also regarding nuclear energy. Regarding Nuclear energy, how much Uranium do we have? and how long it will last? Let’s try to answer these question. Index: Uranium reserve Uranium required for the whole life of a reactor World consumption and […]
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How to deal with radioactive waste
When someone talk about Nuclear technology for sure the topic of radioactive waste comes out. But what is radioactivity? how dangerous is it and how we deal with radioactive stuff? In this page i will try to answer these questions. Contents: What is radioactivity? Radioactive exposure near plants Waste treatment Conclusions what is radioactivity? Some […]
