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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.
M. M. Yarosh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1960 | Pages 32-43
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE8-1-32
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Heat transfer and pressure drop test data were obtained on liquid metal-to-molten salt heat exchangers and on liquid metal-to-air radiators. The data were correlated to permit predictions of the heat transfer and pressure drop performance of heat exchange equipment to be used on the Aircraft Reactor Test scheduled at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The test results agreed well with analytical predictions using the Dittus-Boelter and Kaufman-Lubarsky equations except that in the transition region from laminar to turbulent flow marked differences were found in the heat transfer coefficients for flow through round tubes and axial flow between tubes. These differences appeared to stem in part from the irregular geometry of the flow passage between tubes, and in part, from the tube spacers employed.