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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.
Hiroshige Kumamaru
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 2 | February 2023 | Pages 135-150
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2107311
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Numerical calculations are conducted for liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamic flows through a circular pipe with an electrically conducting wall in both the magnetic field inlet region and the outlet region. Conservation equations of fluid mass and of fluid momentum and the Poisson equation for electrical potential are solved numerically. The calculations are performed by a cylindrical coordinate system using a staggered grid in order to obtain numerically stable solutions, covering Hartmann numbers up to the order of 10 000. As to the loss coefficient ζ for the pressure drop, the value of ζ/(Ha2/Re) does not depend on the Ha number, the Re number, and the wall conductance ratio very much for both the magnetic field inlet section and the outlet section. The value of ζ/(Ha2/Re) changes mainly with the gradient of the applied magnetic field for both the magnetic field inlet section and the outlet section.