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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.
Tohru Haga
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 48 | Number 2 | June 1972 | Pages 227-231
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22478
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Consideration is given to the use of booster rods in a D2O moderated H2O -cooled boiling water power reactor to provide reactivity control to override 135Xe buildup. A booster rod, generally containing highly 235U enriched uranium, is equivalent to a highly effluent fuel assembly. It is shown that the fuel distribution within the most effective booster rod is such that the fuel importance function is flat. Several models of booster rods are evaluated.
