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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 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 120-123
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11588
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We propose to use dispersion interferometer for measurement of plasma density and control of plasma position on present and future fusion devices. Distinguishing feature of this scheme is probing of plasma on two wavelengths. Short-wave radiation is formed by method of frequency fundamental radiation doubling. Probing first and second harmonics rays are combined spatially at the same time. It allows to create interferometer which is sensitive only to dispersion of studied medium and weakly sensitive to vibration of optical elements. Designs of the optical system dispersion interferometer and results of plasma density measurements on GDT mirror and TEXTOR tokamak are presented.