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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.
Ira G. Dillon and Leslie Burris, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 5 | September 1957 | Pages 567-581
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25425
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The fission product spectra in discharged fuel from fast fission power reactors have been calculated over a wide range of operating conditions (reactor operating times from 10 to 10,000 days and cooling times from zero to infinity). These calculations are based on recent yield data for fission of uranium and plutonium. From these calculated data are presented derived data of total curies and energy dissipation rates as functions of operating time and cooling time.