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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.
Richard N. Olcott
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 4 | August 1956 | Pages 327-341
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18606
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Ten critical assemblies of enriched uranyl-fluoride heavy-water solutions have been studied. In six cases, heavy water reflectors surrounded solutions in which the atomic ratio of deuterium to uranium-235 varied from 34 to 430. The remaining four assemblies were without reflector and the deuterium to U235 ratio ranged from 230 to 2080. Activation rates within the systems were measured for the resonance detectors In, Au, Pd, and Mn and for the fission detectors U235, U238, Pu239, and U233.