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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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Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 4 | April 1971 | Pages 520-537
Technical Paper | Symposium on Reactor Containment Spray System Technology / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A16262
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Scalbatraio Center, established by the Nuclear Engineering Institute of the University of Pisa for research in nuclear safety, has facilities for experimental work on containment systems, primary circuit integrity, and radioactive material transport. Most of the current work is concentrated on establishing the effectiveness of sprays as an engineering safety feature for light water reactors. These studies involve the 100 m3 containment facility, PSICO 10.