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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.
M. S. Lyttle, L. R. Baylor, R. E. Battle, S. J. Meitner, D. A. Rasmussen, J. M. Shoulders
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 3 | April 2017 | Pages 251-255
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1290969
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ITER will use a Pellet Injection System (PIS) for supplying deuterium-tritium (D-T) fuel to the fusion plasma and a Shattered Pellet Injection (SPI) system for rapidly injecting impurities (argon or neon mixed with deuterium) as solidified pellets into the plasma for the purpose of mitigating the harmful effects of plasma disruptions as part of a Disruption Mitigation System (DMS). Both systems are being designed to handle significant amounts of tritium in the process streams and are exposed to similar environmental conditions during operation, including exposure to gamma and neutron radiation and significant magnetic fields. Multiple barriers to prevent the potential release of the tritium inventory into the environment are included in the designs. The unique environmental conditions present some challenges and are currently being addressed during the design phase.