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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.
H. Gerwin, W. Scherer, E. Teuchert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 3 | November 1989 | Pages 302-312
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23682
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The TINTE code deals with the nuclear and thermal transient behavior of a high-temperature reactor, taking into consideration the mutual feedback effects in two-dimensional r-z geometry, including the following: 1. time-dependent neutron flux calculation 2. time-dependent heat source distribution (local and nonlocal fractions) 3. time-dependent heat transport from the fuel to the fuel element surface 4. time-dependent global temperature distribution 5. gas flow distribution for a given mass flow or given pressure difference or even under natural circulation conditions 6. convection and its feedback to the circulation. The TINTE code has been tested against transient experiments performed at the Arbeitsgemein-schaft Versuchsreaktor. It has also been used successfully for other reactor investigations and thermofluid problems including design studies for a small heating reactor of the peu à peu loading type.