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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.
Pierre Benoist, Tomasz Duracz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 86 | Number 1 | January 1984 | Pages 41-46
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A17968
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On the basis of the simple formalism, numerical results for a set of hexagonal fast reactor lattices are presented. This allows the influence of lattice parameters on the diffusion coefficients and the sodium-voiding effect to be pointed out. Comparisons with calculations based on a cylindrical cell model are also given. They lead to the conclusion that the Wigner-Seitz approximation can underestimate the diffusion coefficients in fast lattices with larger gap widths.