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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.
Norman P. Klug, P. F. Zweifel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 6 | June 1960 | Pages 541-544
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25763
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Calculations are made of the infinite multiplication factor in natural uranium dioxide lattices employing mixtures of light and heavy water as a moderator. The three parameters varied in the study are (a) the metal-to-water volume ratio, (b) pin diameter, and (c) light-to-heavy water atomic ratio. Maxima in plots of K∞ vs hydrogen-to-deuterium ratio indicate that such H2O + D2O mixtures would prove advantageous in certain cases. However, in these cases, slight fuel enrichment might be required.