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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2491-2494
Fission Reactor | Proceedings of the Second National Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Dayton, Ohio, April 30 to May 2, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24653
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A study has been made of the technical and economic aspects of reducing tritium concentration in Savannah River Plant heavy-water moderator by 90%. A single detritiation plant would serve four operating reactors and the desired tritium reduction would be achieved in less than ten years. The process choice has narrowed to three processes. These involve a front-end extraction or preparation of molecular DT in a D2 stream, and a back-end fractional distillation of this stream followed by catalytic conversion to make 98% tritium T2.