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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.
Xiaoyan Shu, Bo Huang, Jijun Yang, Dongping Liu, Hongyu Fan, Jiali Liao, Yuanyou Yang, Ning Liu, Jun Tang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 278-282
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-734
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Potassium-doped tungsten (W-K) and pure tungsten samples were fabricated by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) method and irradiated by He plasma. The samples were characterized by relative density, optical microscopy, and atomic force microscope (AFM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) measurements. Through tuning the sintering parameters, samples with different K content but similar density and size distribution were obtained in this study. It is found that a sample with higher K content shows better resistance to helium irradiation than that containing less K. In addition, both W-K samples show better performance than pure W in low energy He resistance, indicating that the potassium doping is helpful for improving He-plasma-irradiation resistance for tungsten-based materials.