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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.
Irina Vagner, Carmen Varlam, Ionut Făurescu, Denisa Făurescu, Diana Bogdan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 3 | April-May 2024 | Pages 285-290
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2241790
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This paper presents the activity level of total organically bound tritium (OBT) in different plant species, e.g., grains (wheat, corn), trees (apple, fir), and vines, and different organs of the plants (buds, leaves, fruits, straw, and branches) surrounding the Experimental Pilot Plant for Tritium and Deuterium Separation during the growing seasons of 2020 and 2021, The influence of environmental factors over OBT in the studied plant species is established by measurements of the tritium activity level in air and precipitations and their influence over tissue-free water tritium activity.