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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.
A. Ciancia, A. Ascensioni, C. Corti, G. Caporiccio
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 86 | Number 2 | February 1984 | Pages 232-238
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18206
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An extensive study has been carried out to evaluate possible use of the perfluoropolyether fluids, obtained from hexafluoropropylene photo-oxidation and specially purified and selected, as lubricants or vacuum-working fluids, in the presence of UF6. Some physicochemical properties are reported and the results of the tests experienced on perfluoropolyether cuts put into contact with UF6 at different conditions for a long aging time at high temperature in the presence of some typical engineering materials. The results allowed a verification of the long-term compatibility of the perfluoropolyether special fractions against UF6 at temperatures up to 130°C.