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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.
S.Shimamoto, T.Ando, T.Hiyama, H.Tsuji, Y.Takahashi, E.Tada, M.Nishi, K.Yoshida, K.Okuno, K.Koizumi, H.Nakajima, T.Kato, O.Takahashi, M.Oshikiri, F.Iida, K.Yasukochi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 897-905
Magnet Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22974
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In 1982, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) succeeded in rated operation of two development toroidal coils : 8 T Nb-Ti D shape LCT coil and 10 T Nb3Sn circular coil. The two successes correspond to scaling-up technology and high field technology of toroidal coil, respectively. These two projects were started in 1978 in JAERI. This paper describes the design concepts, the key parameters, and the experiments of these two coils. The main results, described on the both coils, are cool-down characteristics, superconducting recovery characteristics, discharge characteristics and strain measurements.