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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. Zia Rouhani
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 4 | December 1962 | Pages 414-419
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It is proposed to use the (γ, n) reaction for the measurement of the integrated void volume fraction in two phase flow of D2O inside a duct. This method is applicable to different channel geometries, and it is shown to be insensitive to the pattern of void distribution over the cross-sectional area of the channel. The method has been tested on mock-ups of voids in a round duct of 6 mm inside diameter. About 40 mC Na24 was used as a source of gamma rays. The test results show that the maximum measured error in this arrangement is less than 2.5% (net void) for a range of 2.7% to 44.44% actual void volume fractions.