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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.
S. W. Strauss, L. E. Richards, B. F. Brown
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 5 | May 1960 | Pages 442-447
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25742
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The densities of liquid lead and of liquid nickel-lead solutions containing up to about 3.5 atomic per cent nickel were measured as a function of temperature using a modified Archimedean method. It was found that the densities of the nickel-lead solutions were greater than that of pure liquid lead and increased with increase in nickel content. Partial molal volumes for nickel and lead were then determined by the method of intercepts. The results indicate that for the composition region investigated the partial molal volume of lead does not differ significantly from the molal volume of lead and the partial molal volume of nickel approaches a value of zero at high dilution.