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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.
L. Bromberg, P. Titus
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1199-1203
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To improve scheduled and unscheduled maintenance of the nuclear island, methods of supporting the out-of-plane TF loads so as not to interfere with maintenance operation would be highly desirable. Even if the toroidal field coil were extended outwardly to allow for maintenance of toroidally segmented modules, ideally there should not be structures in between coils in the outboard legs of the toroidal field coil. The number of these modules is the same as the number of toroidal field coils, and therefore one and only one module is removed between a pair of adjacent TF coils. Structural analyses of several cases that have the common feature of avoiding material in between the outer legs of the TF coil are presented in this paper. The implications on the structural amount of material required are investigated.