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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.
T. J. Hurley, Jr., H. R. Fike, and G. F. O'Neill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 3 | March 1962 | Pages 341-347
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A28084
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Studies performed in the Process Development Pile of the Savannah River Laboratory have provided precise measurements of the material bucklings of a number of D2O-moderated lattices of natural uranium metal rods over an extended range of fuel assembly sizes and lattice pitches. The 1-in. uranium rods were clad with 0.032 in. of aluminum. Fuel assembly sizes varied from single rods to clusters of 3, 7, and 19 rods (0.09 to 1.81 kg U/cm) and lattice spacings from 7.00 to 21.00 in., covering a range of moderator-to-fuel volume ratios from 10.23 to 161.53. A few lattices were studied at different D2O purities, in loadings of different sizes, and in reflected loadings.