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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.
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Blanket Shield and Neutronic | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30032
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Activation analysis has been performed for the D-3He fueled reactor ARIES-III. The activity, decay heat and biological hazard potential (BHP) have been calculated for the low activation steel (modified HT-9) first wall and shield as a function of time following the reactor shutdown. The total activity produced in the reactor at shutdown is 1549 MCi. The total activity produced in the reactor organic coolant following 30 full power years of operation without reprocessing is 458 Ci. The modified HT-9 shield qualifies for shallow land burial as Class A low level waste. The biological dose rate after shutdown at the back of the outboard shield is too high to allow hands-on maintenance. Burning all the tritium in the plasma chamber results in increasing the radioactivity generated in ARIES-III by 65% to 85% at different times following the reactor shutdown.