Introduction to Nuclear Energy

PH241 - Stanford University - Winter 2026
R. B. Laughlin

Reports

Baraa Abdelghne Radioactivity Scale of the Hanford Tank Waste
Radioactive Waste Processing and Storage at Sellafield
Allan Attia Nuclear Propulsion for Mars Missions
Reprocessed Fuel and Uranium Savings in France
Natascha Barac Radionuclide Resuspension
OPAL: A Research Reactor
Maya Benyas Graphite Moderation and the Wigner Effect
Nuclear Radioisotope Production
Sophia Bonanno PM-2A Nuclear Reactor in Greenland
The Consequences of Castle Bravo
Pelin Dedeler Nuclear Energy in Turkey
Z-Pinch Fusion: Toward Commercial Fusion and Its Energy Scale
Marinos Eliades How Much Uranium Concentrate Does the United States Produce?
California's Last Nuclear Plant: The Scale and Significance of Diablo Canyon's Annual Output
Daniella Fenster The Ongoing Search for Fusion Reactor First Wall Materials
TRISO Fuel
Patrick Flanagan Front-End Nuclear Fuel Cost per Kilowatt-Hour of U.S. Nuclear Electricity
How Much Uranium Does the World's Nuclear Power Industry Consume Each Year?
Léon Garcia What Is Blocking U.S. SMR Deployment?
Reprocessing Is Not the Same as Solving Nuclear Waste
Hayden Hamilton A Breif Overview of Heavy Water Reactors
An Overview of U.S. Nuclear Power Regulation
Yousef Helal Nuclear Power in Egypt
Project Plowshare
Zara Jahan Radiation Effects on Microelectronics in Space
Betavoltaic Microbatteries
Amber Kwok Nuclear Energy for Data Center Decarbonization
Global Spent Nuclear Fuel from Commercial Reactors
Raphael Low The Economics of Aging Nuclear Reactors
Wakefield Acceleration for Particle Acceleration
Nathan Ly Fission Energy and Metropolitan Power Demand
Thermodynamic Efficiency Limits in Modern Nuclear Power Plants
Maya Mandyam Satsop Nuclear Power Plant: An Economic Failure
How Much Radiation Can Plants Survive?
Francesco Marchioni Fast Neutron Reactors: From Core Physics to New Opportunities
Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities and Control Architectures in Tokamaks
Anirudh Mazumder Nuclear Desalination
Tc-99m in Nuclear Medicine Imaging
Katie Nath Fission Reactor Criticality
Inertial Confinement Fusion: 2022 Breakthrough
Ben Nicastro Principles and Performance of the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
Naval Nuclear Power
Tanav Ohal Kodak Film and the Trinity Fallout
Am-241 and Pu-238 for NASA Artemis Lunar RTG
Tanmay Prakash Nuclear Energy Density
India's Thorium Dream
Max Shen Nuclear Fallout in French Polynesia
The Nuclear Record in Coral
Felipe Teixeira Angra 3: 42 Years, Zero Watts
Coal Versus Nuclear Radioactivity: A Misleading Comparison
Chuer Yang Belt and Road Initiative: Nuclear Energy Expansion
Stellarator Fusion Reactors
Jason Ye Akademik Lomonosov Cogeneration Plant
Seismic Analysis of Nuclear Tests