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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.
Hsichun M. Hua, Paul S. Lykoudis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 54 | Number 4 | August 1974 | Pages 445-449
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23438
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Turbulence intensities in a closed rectangular channel were measured under the influence of a transverse magnetic field in the range of Reynolds numbers between 5.3 × 104 and 2.8 × 105 and Hartmann numbers between 0 and 1500. The intensities were found to be suppressed exponentially by the field in the range M2/Re <0.12. Skin-friction measurements were also obtained during the experiment. The measurements were found to be lower than the theoretical magneto-fluid-mechanic laminar predictions for values of M/Re > 25 × 104. This phenomenon was attributed to magnetic entrance effects.
