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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.
E. Wacholder, S. Kaizerman, N. Tomerian, D. G. Cacuci
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 89 | Number 1 | January 1985 | Pages 1-35
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17880
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Two methods of sensitivity theory, i.e., the Direct Sensitivity Approach and the Adjoint Sensitivity Method, have been successfully applied to a simplified problem of transient, one-dimensional, composite region of single-phase and homogeneous equilibrium two-phase flow within a uniformly heated channel subjected to an exponential inlet flow decay. In both methods, exact analytical solutions for all elementary sensitivity coefficients at each point in space and time are obtained. A general procedure for the construction of the sensitivity equations' boundary conditions at the moving boundary between the two phases has been developed and applied. Discontinuities in the velocity and quality sensitivity coefficients across the moving boundary have been obtained. The enthalpy sensitivity coefficients are found to be continuous. The behavior of the sensitivity coefficients has been investigated. This investigation provides insights into the relative importance of the input parameters and the nature of the propagation of uncertainties in space and time in two-phase flow systems.