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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.
W. Schütz, H. Sauter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 667-672
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18976
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Sodium evaporation rates from Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center-NALA experiments (experiments on aerosol release from a contaminated sodium pool into an argon or a nitrogen atmosphere) are presented. Pool temperatures were varied between 700 and 1000 K at different geometrical and convective conditions. Technical scale experiments with a 531-cm2 pool surface area were performed at natural convection in a 2.2-m3 heated vessel, as well as additional small scale experiments at forced convection and 38.5-cm2 pool surface area. The data are compared to the sodium vapor pressure. For the data at natural convection, a best fit formula is given.