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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. E. Blanco
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 5 | October 1956 | Pages 409-419
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A28778
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Heterogeneous reactor reprocessing problems are discussed primarily from the viewpoint of a central solvent extraction reprocessing station. The currently proposed fuels have been classified into types to minimize the number of processing schemes required. Primary emphasis is placed on a description of alternate methods for converting fuels to a nitric acid soluble form and the effects of radiation and inert alloy metals on the solvent extraction method. Head-end methods include acid dissolution, oxidation, hydrochlorination, chlorination, carburization, molten metal dissolution, and electrolytic dissolution. A new reprocessing method, the Hermex process, which uses mercury as the dissolving agent, is also presented. Schematic flowsheets for proposed methods are included.