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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.
J. K. Fox, L. W. Gilley, J. H. Marable
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 6 | June 1958 | Pages 694-697
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25504
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The critical thickness of proton moderated and proton reflected slab-shaped volumes of aqueous solutions of UO2F2 enriched to 93.2% in U235 were measured at chemical concentrations near that required for minimum critical volume. These data yield 1.76 ± 0.07 in. as the minimum critical thickness of an infinite slab of the materials of the experiment at a concentration of 532 g U235/l This result is compared with a three-group two-region analysis of the infinite slab.