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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.
C. H. MILLAR, B. W. SARGENT,1 J. C. HORSMAN
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 3 | May 1957 | Pages 363-372
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25401
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Development is described of a device to detect holes in the fuel-rod sheaths in an H2O-cooled heterogeneous reactor by detecting delayed-neutrons from fission products in the effluent coolant. Operational comparison with other types of monitors is tabulated for 22 cases of burst rod sheaths. Modifications required to adapt the monitor to a D2O-cooled reactor are discussed.
