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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.
L. J. Wittenberg, D. E. Etter, J. E. Selle, P. A. Tucker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 1 | September 1965 | Pages 1-7
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19253
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The equilibrium phase diagram of the plutonium-cerium-copper system is presented, based on data obtained by differential thermal analysis, metallography and electron-microprobe x-ray analysis. Liquid-solid phase transitions were found between 419 and 1083°C. Ten crystalline phases solidify as primary phases from molten plutonium-cerium-copper solutions. No ternary compounds occur in the system. The ternary system is divided into two subsystems by the quasibinary section, CeCu2-PuCu2. Continuous solid solubility occurs along this join with neither a maximum nor a minimum. Solid solubility also occurs between the congruent compound, CeCu6, and the incongruent compound, Pu2Cu11. The ternary system is characterized by a single eutectic (4at.%Pu-68at.%Ce-28at.%Cu at 419°C), four peritectics, and two inversion points.