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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.
W. E. Graves, H. R. Fike, G. F. O'Neill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 2 | June 1963 | Pages 186-195
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26498
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The material bucklings of twenty-five D2O moderated lattices of natural UO2 rod clusters were measured in the Process Development Pile (PDP). The measurements were made in one-region loadings, and should therefore be subject to little systematic error. A number of the lattices employed voided housing tubes around the fuel assemblies. Values of migration areas inferred from measurements of positive periods are also presented. An evaluation of the errors in the buckling measurements indicated that the bucklings should be accurate to about 1%. The migration areas are compared with theoretical values obtained from the Benoist theory, and the agreement is shown to be good.