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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.
E. E. Duke
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 4 | April 1965 | Pages 490-497
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A18793
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Burnout and heat-transfer correlations have been obtained from experimental data in a ‘Once-Through Superheat’ channel with an exponential heat distribution. Such an electrically heated channel permits local heat fluxes to approach burnout limits in order to maximize total heat input to a test section. Data as a function of the process variables include burnout heat flux in the high quality region and superheat production from 0 to 235°F. The range of the independent process variables are: pressure, 520 to 1900 lb/in.2 (gage); flow, 0.0108 to 0.242 × 106 lb/h-ft2, and subcooling from 0 to 327°F. Several comparisons with data in the literature including one for high quality film boiling are made.