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The Nuclear Electrical Engineer

An educational resource for electrical engineers in the nuclear power industry

Here you can find design tips on technical skills like cable and breaker sizing, short-circuit evaluations and more, PLUS deep-dive analysis of nuclear-specific topics like design basis, Tech Specs, UFSARs, and safety-related SSCs — built from primary source documents.

Tip of the Week · Feature

Simple tips to protect your home from burglars

Crime prevention tends to obey the laws of economics. A basic law is this: when the price of something falls, more is demanded. . . .

This also means that when the price increases, demand falls off.

The key to protecting your house from burglars is to increase the price of breaking in, especially relative to other houses.

There are a handful of easy things you can do to raise the cost of burglary. The following infographic contains facts, such as the time of day most break-ins occur:

http://www.supercircuits.com/resources/blog/burglary-by-the-numbers-infographic

The second infographic contains prevention tips:

http://www.protectyourhome.com/how-to-prevent-burglary

The more you implement, the higher the price becomes.