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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.
R. J. Onega, K. E. Karcher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 2 | October 1976 | Pages 276-282
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A27363
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A nonlinear mathematical model for determining the dynamic response of a pressurized water reactor was developed that incorporates both prompt and delayed temperature feedback. The use of a modified form of Hansen's method of largest eigenvalues was employed to obtain the solution. The novel features of this model are that the nonlinearities are treated explicitly, and the temperature dependence of thermal-hydraulic parameters is preserved without approximation. A comparison of power and temperature transients was made with other work.