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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.
Kenji Kotoh, Kotaro Kubo, Shoji Takashima, Sho-taro Moriyama, Masahiro Tanaka, Takahiko Sugiyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 439-442
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T49
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Authors have been developing a cryogenic pressure swing adsorption system for hydrogen isotope separation. In the problem of its design and operation, it is necessary to predict the concentration profiles developing in packed beds of adsorbent pellets. The profiling is affected by the longitudinal dispersion of gas flowing in packed beds, in addition to the mass transfer resistance in porous media of adsorbent pellets. In this work, an equation is derived for estimating the packed-bed dispersion coefficient of hydrogen isotopes, by analyzing the breakthrough curves of trace D2 or HD replacing H2 adsorbed in synthetic zeolite particles packed columns at the liquefied nitrogen temperature 77.4 K. Since specialized for hydrogen isotopes, this equation can be expected to estimate the dispersion coefficients more reliable for the cryogenic hydrogen isotope adsorption process, than the existing equations.