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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 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1383-1386
Detritiation and Isotope Separation | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12688
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Radiation-induced isotopic equilibration in hydrogen gas containing tritium has to be accounted for when cryogenic distillation of hydrogen isotopes is used for their separation. In the absence of sufficient experimental data on the reaction kinetics an appropriate theoretical model is proposed. Unknown parameters of the model have been estimated with use of Möller-Plesset ab initio method. The results of calculations are in a reasonable agreement with certain experiments performed earlier by other authors. The dependencies of equilibration rate on temperature, pressure, and tritium molar fraction are established for isotope mixtures containing no impurities.