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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.
B. Coppi, M. Nassi, L.E. Sugiyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1607-1611
Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29949
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The latest embodiment1 (Ignitor Ult) of an advanced machine with the purpose of investigating D-T burn ignition conditions is presented. The main engineering characteristics and the design of the machine's principal components are driven by the plasma parameters that have to be achieved while ensuring the stability of the chosen equilibrium configuration of the plasma column.
