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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.
Y. Yamasaki, S. Fukada, K. Hiyane, K. Katayama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 4 | May 2017 | Pages 501-506
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1291028
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In order to make proof of the recovery of hydrogen isotopes from a liquid lithium (Li) blanket, we experimented the recovery of deuterium (D) dissolved in Li by means of yttrium (Y) metal at 300°C. In the experiment, 160 wppm D dissolved in Li was removed down to 1 wppm by means of the Y trap maintained at 300°C under fluidized Li conditions. The ratio of the final-state D concentration dissolved in Li to the initial one is defined as a removal efficiency, and the removal efficiency was found to be in proportion to the D concentration remained in Li. In addition, judging from its dependence on D concentration remained in Li, it was found that the removal efficiency is well consistent with the secondary-order reaction process and the removal efficiency was correlated to a function of contact time.