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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.
N. J. Carson, Jr., S. B. Brak
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 3 | March 1962 | Pages 412-418
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A28092
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A semiautomatic, radiation resistant machine has been developed at Argonne National Laboratory for the remote manufacture and inspection of EBR-II fuel pins from injection castings. Castings are stripped from Vycor molds by a device which breaks the molds. Fuel pins are cut from castings by shearing and are inspected. An air gauge, balance, length comparator, and eddy current probe provide progressive diameter, weight, length, and internal quality signals. These signals are fed into a computer which gives digital indications of diameter, weight, length, volume, and density plus an internal quality trace. The accuracy of diameter, weight, and length measurements is 0.0002 in., 0.1 gm, and 0.01 in. respectively.