My wife is our designated health insurance communicator. It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck when she really gets going. There is no passive in her aggressive.

Walt Whitman wrote about baseball in 1846 in the Brooklyn Eagle, so it’s at least older than that.

Very sorry to hear what y’all are going through. Far less serious but related example: for many migraine sufferers, the first sign of a migraine is the inability to recognize you have one. You know you’re hurting and you know you get migraines, but you just can’t put it together.

Sorry— late to the game but you might look into nuclear materials research, isotope production, or neutron scattering research. Both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory have research reactors with large programs. Most any National lab will have nuclear research programs.

Congratulations!

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Thanks for asking! HFIR is an entirely peaceful use facility. Our 3 major missions are neutron scattering for basic research, isotope production mostly for medical uses, and fuels and materials research. One of the major things we will be doing with this position is to convert our fuel to LEU.

If you're into nuclear thermal-hydraulics, you won't find a more interesting system to work on. It's a fascinating machine. If you're interested, feel free to reach out. 6/6

Here's more about HFIR: www.energy.gov/ne/articles/...

That's an entire swimming pool volume that we push into the vessel every minute. The flow rate is about 50 feet per second. With a 2' core length, the transit time for the coolant is just 0.04 seconds, and in that short time the temperature goes up 35ºF.
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If we just had straight plates, the coolant channel would be larger near the outer radius and all the coolant flow would go there. The curved plates also provide hydraulic stability in the turbulent flow. How much flow? 16,000 gallons per minute. No, I didn't forget a decimal point. 4/6

How do we keep it cool with all that power? Using what I think is one of the coolest features of HFIR and one that is rare in the nuclear reactor world -- involute fuel plates! There are hundreds of individual fuel plates, and each is curved so that the coolant gap is constant everywhere.
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HFIR is a special for a lot of reasons, but the main one is a ridiculously high power density. We generate 85 MW in a volume equal to maybe a half of a 55 gal drum. High power density means high neutron density, which is how we make critical medical isotopes that can't be made anywhere else.
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*lying, not laying. I always get the wrong.

Hi Manuel! I’m a nuclear engineer and my research is made not in nuclear materials and thermal hydraulics

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My ANS student conference was at TAMU. It was a fun trip and I had a great time. I’m thankful there are no pictures and that smart phones and social media hadn’t been invented yet.