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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.
Michael P. Heisler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 347-359
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19819
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This paper summarizes similitude requirements for liquid-metal fast breeder reactor natural convection shutdown heat removal test facilities. It is generally not possible under natural circulation flow to reproduce both hydrodynamic and thermodynamic similarity when the thermal driving head is determined by structure-to-fluid heat transfer. This paper explores the source of the scaling difficulties and examines a number of possible solutions. Design and operating restrictions imposed on the test facility and the validity of extrapolating test facility data to the full-scale system are discussed.