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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.
Takayoshi Norimatsu, Oleg Kotyaev, Yoshinori Shimada, Shinri Kurahashi, Shinji Motokoshi, Katsuhiro Mikami, Kei Sasaki, Takahisa Jitsuno, Kohei Yamanoi, Hiroyuki Furukawa, Tomoaki Kunugi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 70 | Number 3 | November 2016 | Pages 417-422
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-206
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A grazing incidence, shallow liquid metal mirror could be used as the final optic for the heating laser in a fast-ignition fusion power plant. The relaxation of vibrations on the surface of liquid mercury following laser irradiation was measured experimentally in this study. The results suggested that vibrations on a 0.25-mm-thick mirror were small enough to allow 4-Hz laser operation.
