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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 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 298-302
In-Vessel Components - FW, Blanket, Shield & VV | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-323
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By introducing an induction heater and combination of a compact heat exchanger and a helium loop as a cooler, high temperature operation of lithium-lead loop at Kyoto University was performed successfully. After modification of thermal insulation, reasonable temperature distribution was obtained and sufficient effective heating power of 2.7kW and heating efficiency of 40% was demonstrated without concern about overheating of downstream of the high temperature section. As a result, observed highest temperature is 926°C and 4 hours continuous operation above 900°C was achieved.