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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.
A. D. Horton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 13 | Number 2 | June 1962 | Pages 103-109
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26139
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Gas chromatography was used to identify and to determine volatile products from the Homogeneous Reactor Test and from the processing of nuclear fuels and wastes. A gas Chromatograph was constructed and used for part of the separations. It differs from conventional chromatographs in having an all-Pyrex gas-sampling system and all-Pyrex columns for use in the analysis of corrosive gases, that is, the oxides and chlorides of nitrogen. Temperature programming of the molecular-sieves column was used to advantage in the determination of the oxides of nitrogen and of carbon. The effect of the adsorption characteristics of type 5-A molecular sieves with respect to the adsorption-desorption of water and of nitric oxide was determined; both effects are significant in the analysis of mixtures of the oxides of nitrogen. The versatility of molecular sieves as an adsorbent in gas-solid chromatography was exploited in this work.