SCALE 6.1 code system and VENTURE-PC code system has been used for the core conversion of Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) from Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) system (90.2% enriched UAl4 fuel) to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) system (19.75% enriched UO2-zircaloy-4 fuel). All o...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/23750
The impact of a municipal solid waste dumpsite on soil and groundwater in Port Harcourt municipality was investigated using 2-D resistivity imaging technique. The resistivity data was acquired along six traverses, two of which was used as control line. The objective of the study...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/28080
Gamma spectroscopy was used to determine the activity concentration of 238U, 232Th and 40K and radiation dose estimates in water resources of Abua/Odual Local Government Area in Rivers State of Nigeria. A total of 19 water samples (7 borehole water, 6 river water and 6 hand dug w...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/28033
A new universal mechanism of the formation of long-lived atmospheric vortex is proposed. It is based on the hydrodynamic pressure drop in the air stream, if air density decreases in the flow direction. The magnitude of this drop may increase with jet velocity increasing. It is as...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/28055
In this work, vertically aligned porous Si nanowire (SiNW) arrays were successfully fabricated on two sides of an n-type Si wafer substrate. Ag nanoparticles (NPs) were first deposited onto the Si substrate via two different deposition methods, chemically and electrically (cyclic...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/27566
The author has enhanced the original one dimensional semi-empirical atmosphere-ocean-biosphere model 1DAOBM based on the four-box presentation. The improved 1DAOBM-2 contains two major parameters, which have been tuned to adjust the total CO2 net flux rate and the anthropogenic n...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/27004
In this paper, the cohesive energies of Sodium Chloride (NaCl), Silicon dioxide (SiO2) and Alum inum (Al) based on computer code FHI-aims were calculated using Density Functional Theory. The code has several input parameters in which some of the variables were optimized. The cohe...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/26479
In this paper, a general idea about wearable thermoelectric generator from the body heat has been discussed. First, a thermoelectric generator, which is usually used for industrial purposes (Tellurex-G2-40-0329 series), was used for lab experiment to observe the output results at...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/27900
We have considered the theories of extra dimensions from Large Extra Dimensions and Randall-Sundrum models to the E8 × E8 heterotic sting theory identified with the 11-dimensional M-theory. Within the three models of extra dimensions and with the help of computer program PYTHIA w...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/28096
This paper investigates the interaction between terrain features and surface refractivity during the past decades in the North Central, Nigeria. Some issues were addressed in the study namely seasonal variation of surface refractivity over a period of 25 years (1983 – 2007), spat...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2016/27436