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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.
S. A. Reed, P. R. Crowley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1956 | Pages 511-521
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18465
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Rates of sedimentation are reported for concentrated, flocculated aqueous suspensions of thorium oxide at temperatures from 150 to 325°C. Sedimentation tests were carried out in quartz tubes using a motion picture camera to follow sedimentation in the hindered settling region. The observed rates were used as a basis for calculating the effective particle diameters and densities of the sedimenting bodies at the elevated temperatures. The calculations are based on the premise that the slurries are agglomerated and that the nature of the agglomerates varies with temperature.