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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. C. Peterson, M. G. Zaalouk, S. İ. Güçeri
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 2 | October 1976 | Pages 250-257
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A27358
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This is part of a series of experimental investigation and analysis of the boiling phenomena. Previously, pool boiling experiments were carried out in all boiling regions, following the design and construction of a feedback control system that allowed process operation at any point on the boiling curve including the unstable region, which is referred to here as the transition or negative-h boiling region. This paper reports the results of flow boiling dynamic analysis in this region with the necessary modifications of formulas presented earlier to properly represent the flow boiling case; in addition, this analysis gives more insight into the characteristics of a boiling region, which is often considered desirable to avoid for many engineering applications because of the characteristic instability.