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BelieverDE:
mrphysics, I must say this -you are a good writer. You wrote your thoughts in an detailed faction that captures your readers' attention

No wonder I login to Nairaland frequently to check if you have posted an update on your thread. That's just amazing!

Could you please refer me to any online courses, books, etc in order to hone my writing skill?

Thanks in anticipation

Thanks bro. I am not really a good writer, I just try to do my best and improve my writing skills.

Why not open a thread on Diary section, try to write on any topic. The purpose is not to have the best thread but to get started putting your thoughts down. Again, you already write well, just go into something that is deeper or little bit complicated.

Warm wishes boss

Hi Guys,

Bonjour à touts

So sometime in December 2019, we received an email from our school about an available scholarship for Nuclear Engineering Masters Student. You can assess the fund if you will be staying in France (so automatically, the Erasmus guys are exempted from applying). The fund is from EDF (EDF is the france Nuclear electric power generation company). However, there was a clause in the email asking those who currently have scholarship not to apply for the fund .

I guess they didn't know who they are talking to . Me that is looking for money from all angles. A lot of people are waiting for our arrival and aside that, one don't need to return back with certificate and pictures alone. Certificate you don't even know if you will be using soon with the level of nepotism in the country.

So when I read the email and the part that said we shouldn't apply if we are currently on scholarship, I did my ear as if I am a swineherd (she must be hitting hand in a tipper fully loaded with sand, Mrphysics can't and won't miss this opportunity). Recall, we are two Nigerians in our class, so we both decided to apply . The worst case scenario is being rejected but it is much better to apply and get rejected than not applying and forever living with the guilt of not knowing what would have happened if we applied.

So we came back and decided to put up a nice application, telling them why we need the fund even though we have a scholarship , we gave them 101 reason while we need the scholarship and thank God the assessment is done in our school before sending the selected awardees to EDF and the lady making the assessment already knew we are on PTDF Scholarship (Because the Nigerian government is the only government that pays the complete tuition fee for NE, 24k euros, so they see us as coming from a rich country and would want to win more souls to the school).

So last week, on Tuesday to be precise, we received a congratulatory message that we have been selected for the scholarship and that I would be awarded 4000 euros. They requested us to sign an acceptance document and also to forward our account number. The other guy got almost same amount 3000 euros. I think both of us got the highest amount.

I nearly went to price our residential building . Free money is the sweetest, no exams, no interview, just simple application and N1.5m just landed like that. This is surely a win to my guys in Ogbete main market Enugu .

So guys, get your knife, wash your hands and let's celebrate this.

Erasmus Students Network organized a party last week. Unfortunately, the Erasmus guys in my class has left to other countries but before leaving, they handed over the baton of partying to one of my classmate, a Turkish guy and a very good friend of mine.

Before going to the party, he asked me if I have some c.ondo.ms, and that his own is finished. I told him I have, ofcourse, I always have to be prepared. I got some packets of it about 15 before leaving the country. It was the last I put inside my bag as most of the packing was done by my mom and sister and I didn't want them to wonder if it is studies I was going for or ..............

So I went with 6 (incase luck shines on us that night). Something shocked me anyway, when I handed him the 3 and he saw the diameter of the circular personal protective equipment (PPE ), the guy was surprised and he immediately told me that it's too big for him. I was like, what the fvck do you mean. He told me that I shouldn't bother and that as a black guy, he expect a big .... compared to his own and that the size decreases as you go up to the northern hemisphere . I have never heard a thing like that before.

Anyway, luck didn't shine on us that night . We had a great time partying and dancing, however, I learned many things about the social life of the French people.

Most French ladies are quite reserved. They don't want to associate whether you are black or white, as long as you are not french, their ladies don't want to go into relationships with non French people (Exceptions exist for some rare events of one night stand which most often goes in the favour of the black guys who they believe possess better shooting machine).

I got very few pictures, about 2, others were personal pictures though.

Since I came to Nantes, I have lived a conservative life.
Before I left 9ja, I prepared for a new life of experience and exploration . I aren't a jew guy (or so I thought). The period I stayed in Abuja was a whole lot of learning experience. I tried my best to find balance between work and social life.

So when this opportunity came, I saw it as another time to take the social life international. Unknown to me, this school has a different plan, one that would push me back to my room and not only make me a "jew guy" but a jewish council of elders .

I accepted my fate and have lived on for 6 months now without any social activities.

So last week, I decided to go to the party and see what's happening out there.

beejay16289:
mrphysics please can you continue this thread, am really missing your post. I just want to say that i am very grateful for all i have learnt on this thread but i just want more�

Lol, thanks bro.

I am glad you enjoyed it.

NwanyiOkpa:
lol. stay in your France

Preshy561:
Poor men should never have erection.

Why please?

What's the relationship between wealth and erection? Biologically, penis and p.ussay is given to all irrespective of where you come from, race, religion, etc.
Their functionalities too does not have any link to your social status. So why do you impose the ability to function on wealth basis?

Preshy561:
Hahahahaha. Obu so sugar daddy
Funny You. I just peep in and out.
Stay safe dear.

Good. How are you

Preshy561:
Enyi m, kedu ebe I jere kamgbe?.
Longest time, Trust you are good.

I have been around. Are you missing your sugar daddy? Don't worry, he is around.

Just stop insulting my fellow men/guys. It doesn't make me feel happy and you should always do what makes me happy.

Preshy561:
The energy these useless men exhumed on hating and subconsciously stuffing women's matter in their smelly sagged balls is the reason why Africa is where it is today.

When you wanna witness first hand hopelessness, come to nl, they can never disappoint.

Jobless things.

Predstan:
Hey Mrphysics, your guy dumped france, now in the USA

Wow, this is a quantum leap bro. Congrats and weldone. You go make way for your guy , I want come share the blessings of God on US.

Congrats again and I trust you are having a nice time

gensteejay:
Where did you later do your master's?

That's what I am currently doing bro

kolladey:
Well done mrphysics.
Mod. should help us push this your thread to front page again. it is superb.

Thank you so much bro.

Happy Sunday guys and remember it is a great world out there and our dear country is lagging 360 degrees behind.

By the time we wakes up, we would have realized how far others have gone and we will spend more money buying technology.

Have a great Sunday and warm wishes to you all.

I took some pictures in motion. So pardon moi

Remember the Spiral2 is used for two purposes, so in places where the transport unit is sent in two different directions, then you should know that each unit is used for one of the two purposes mentioned above.

Random images

Beam transport and focusing section

Each thank incase we want to construct

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The superconducting tanks

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Fission units

Specific pictures of the various sections of the beam room.

The magnetic sections

Unlike the Ganil facility, Ganil Spiral2 does not accelerate ion beans using a cyclotron rather, beams are accelerated and transported linearly through a 30m distance, thus increasing the intensity of beams and chances of interacting with the target.

Pictures 1 to 4.

A look through the 30m beam transport section. This region is 10m underground.

Sipral 2 are used for two purposes.

First, it is not yet ready for operation. It will start it's first ever operation in june 2019. The construction began in 2011 and has taken hundreds of millions of euros.

Spiral2 is located 10 meters below the earth surface and is used for:
Neutron for Science (NFS) where large neutron fluxes are generated and studied and used for electronic and energy applications.
Super Separator Spectrometer which helps to study heavy elements (much heavier than uranium) and would among other things lead to the discovery of new chemical elements and extend the Mendeleieve periodic table.


The facility works with the principle of superconductivity where liquid elements are cooled to few kelvin degree.

Images below:

The outside of the facility and on our way to the Spiral2 facility.

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People wondered why they could go through the construction of a facility that is not used for any commercial purpose. The second phase of the spiral2 would cost 150m euros.

Beams are sent to experiment rooms where different experiments are made using the beams and studied from the control rooms.

Pictures below are the experiment rooms.

I was amazed with the kind of electrical and electronic connections made here. One would wonder how the wires are connected. It is more complicated than you could found anywhere.

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The Ganil Facility has two phases.

Ganil (Ganil 1)
Ganil Spiral2

The Ganil facility operated bases on circular transportation of ion beams. Ion beams in Ganil are produced via nuclear fission. The goal here is not to produce electricity, rather, to cause a stable target to fission by bombarding it with a projectile (alpha, deuterium, proton, etc). This causes the target to fission (separate into two fragments), thus releasing a lot of fission products in beam like nature (ion beams). This beams are then transported (the process of transporting them is the Spiral1(circular) and Spiral2 (linear), to the various experimental rooms.

Like I said before, everything is controlled in the control room and the purpose is to use the beam to study the nuclear properties of matter at such level.

One of the major breakthroughs of Ganil is the use of Carbon14 and proton instead of X-rays and gamma rays to kill cancerous cells and eye tumors

The most important differences between the two areas (phases) is that while in Ganil, heavy particles from Carbon to Uranium-238 are studied, producing intensity of up to 10^12 (trillions) of particles/seconds, in Ganil, lighter particles such as alpha, deuterium, and proton are studied two thus producing lots of particles per second, travelling 1/3 of the speed of light. .

The picture below is the ion beam production rooms.

1 & 2: Beam production room. The tiny straight pipes is the beam transport pipe. The green quadrangle is the magnetic Quadrupole used to focus the ion beams at the centre of the pipe in order not to interact with the steel rod used to transport it.

3&4 is the accelerator (very large that my phone camera could not capture even 1/4 of the entire Accelerator