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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.
Richard M. Ambrosi (Univ. Leicester), Ramy Mesalam (Univ. Leicester), Alessandra Barco (Univ. Leicester), Emily Jane Watkinson (Univ. Leicester), Hannah Sargeant (Univ. Leicester), Chris Bicknell (Univ. Leicester), Tony Crawford (Univ. Leicester), Rob Tute (Univ. Leicester), Gareth Bustin (Univ. Leicester), Tim P. Tinsley (National Nuclear Laboratory), Rebecca Sanderson (National Nuclear Laboratory), Mark Sarsfield (National Nuclear Laboratory), Nick Hanigan (National Nuclear Laboratory), Pierre Coquay (European Space Agency), Christophe Fongarland (European Space Agency), Kevin Simpson (European Thermodynamics), Richard Tuley (European Thermodynamics), Marie-Claire Perkinson (Airbus), Robert Hopton (Airbus), Aled Richings (AWE), Tony Warkup (AWE), Chris Bell (AWE), Piers Slater (Reef Global), Frederic Lattwein (Arianegroup), Daniel Freis (European Commission), Rudy J. M. Konings (European Commission), Steven R. Oleson (NASA Glenn Research Center), Paul C. Schmitz (Power Computing Solutions), Elizabeth Turnbull (NASA Glenn Research Center), Scott Wilson (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Proceedings | Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2024) | Santa Fe, NM, May 6-10, 2024 | Pages 624-630