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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.
Osamu Komeda, Yoshitaka Mori, Ryouhei Hanayama, Shinichiro Okihara, Kazuhisa Fujita, Katsuhiro Ishii, Yoneyoshi Kitagawa, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Nakahiro Satoh, Takashi Sekine, Masaru Takagi, Hirofumi Kan, Naoki Nakamura, Takuya Kondo, Manabu Fujine, Hirozumi Azuma, Tatsumi Hioki, Mitsutaka Kakeno, Tomoyoshi Motohiro, Yasuhiko Nishimura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 2 | March-April 2013 | Pages 296-300
Technical Paper | Selected papers from 20th Target Fabrication Meeting, May 20-24, 2012, Santa Fe, NM, Guest Editor: Robert C. Cook | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16353
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A neutron generator is developed using 1-mm-diam spherical deuterated polystyrene targets on a rotating disk irradiated with an ultrahigh-intensity (>1018 W/cm2) diode-pumped laser. It consists of a rotating disk supplier, the targets, and a control system to irradiate the targets at 1.25 Hz. We adjusted the laser focus and position on the target to obtain the maximum neutron yield.
