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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.
M. Reier
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 25 | Number 4 | August 1966 | Pages 390-394
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18559
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The diffusion parameters of diphenyl at 24, 85, and 105°C were investigated using a pulsed-neutron source. Particular emphasis was placed on reducing the effect of room-return background, a major source of error in experiments of this type. The data were analyzed by the usual three-parameter fit and in terms of the thermalization time constant. The results are in good agreement with a theoretical calculation and measurements using differential techniques but do not show a discontinuity of D0 vs T in going from the solid to the liquid phase.