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Carl Willis
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I am Professor of Practice on the Nuclear Engineering faculty at the University of New Mexico, where I teach with and supervise the AGN-201M nuclear reactor.

I'm a husband, and stepfather to three wonderful kids.

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Hand-loading of nuclear fuel into the #UNM AGN-201M reactor, part of an approach-to-critical teaching lab we perform every year. The fuel is enriched UO2 in HDPE plastic. With our 5W licensed power, the dose rate near the core is less than 10 mrem/h. #NukeSky
February 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Another nucleus explodin' in the CdTe Advacam Minipix at 38,000 feet from #cosmic rays. See downthread for the corresponding data extracted & plotted w Matplotlib. ☢️fun #physics #fission
February 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Cosmic ray tracks in a CdTe hybrid pixel detector (Advacam) at 37000 feet, including a nice #fission or spallation "star". Just wish I had a bigger detector! I will put a few more event images from this flight into the thread below 👇 #NukeSky ☢️fun
January 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM