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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. Ashraf Atta, D. N. Fry, J. E. Mott, and W. T. King
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 2 | May 1978 | Pages 264-268
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27209
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Fluctuations in the neutron flux caused by steam bubbles were analyzed to infer the average void fraction in the four fuel bundles that surround an in-core detector string in a boiling water reactor. The velocity of steam bubbles was inferred from the phase lag between axially displaced in-core fission detectors. This velocity, together with the measured power distribution and mass flow rate, was used to obtain the void fraction as a function of axial position. The results are in agreement with the predictions based on the Zuber et al. model, except near the top of the fuel channel.