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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.
26th Technology of Fusion Energy Meeting (TOFE 2024)
John Echols is the program manager for Materials and Internal Components in the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy. John received his masters’ in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech and his PhD from the University of Florida. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before joining the UK Atomic Energy Authority. He rose to the level of Senior Materials Scientist before moving into the program manager role in the U.S. Department of Energy.
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