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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.
Dennis C. Albright, Robert A. Bari
Nuclear Technology | Volume 39 | Number 3 | August 1978 | Pages 225-257
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32054
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Analyses of primary pipe rupture accidents in the Clinch River Breeder Reactor were carried out with Brookhaven National Laboratory-modified versions of the DEMO code. The thermal transient responses of the core and radial blanket were calculated for a large number of initial conditions and plant configurations. These include studies of variations of pipe break size and operating power. Pipe ruptures commencing from two-loop initial operating conditions are presented. The sensitivity of the thermal response to variations in particular parameters within the estimated ranges of their uncertainties has been studied. Conditions under which sodium boiling in the core occurs are delineated.