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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.
J. Schlösser
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 24 | Number 2 | February 1966 | Pages 123-132
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18297
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A model of parallel capillaries with different diameters has been developed to explain back-diffusion experiments on four rather different graphites both impregnated and unimpregnated. The transport phenomenon has been taken as an interaction between diffusional and molecular flow on one hand, and viscous and slip flow on the other, to cover the whole range of diameter to mean-free-path ratios possible in graphite. It can be shown that only by assuming at least three bundles of capillaries with different diameters can these experiments be adequately explained. It is further possible to relate the material constants, the viscous flow component B0, and the slip flow component K0 to the pore-size distribution obtained. When we consider the complexity of porous capillaries in graphite, the agreement is found to be good, about 30%.