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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.
Joseph A. Thie
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 15 | Number 2 | February 1963 | Pages 109-114
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26408
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The analysis of reactor power fluctuations has proved useful for many reactors. Limited analysis techniques giving specific noise characteristics are proposed. Utilizing the Gaussian property of reactor noise, simplified methods of obtaining the standard deviation are given. The concepts of the easily evaluated correlation times and moments of the power spectral density are applied in the noise analysis of several boiling reactors. It is shown that standard deviations of filtered reactor noise can give spectral shape information. Finally simplified analysis of narrow band spectra is discussed with regard to obtaining the resonance width.