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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 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1831-1836
Neutronic | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29610
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Inventories, release amount, and resulting site boundary dose are evaluated for the possible activation products effluents from ITER. They are activated corrosion products in the cooling water of the primary cooling system, activation of the cooling water itself, the air or inert gas surrounding penetration ducts, high voltage insulating gas for the neutral beam injector, and activated dust in the plasma chamber. The site boundary dose for the public due to the atmospheric effluents of activation products is evaluated to be ∼2 μSv/a which is well below the ITER design target of 50 μSv/a for the sum of tritium and activation products atmospheric effluents.