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Katie Mummah
@nuclearkatie.com
Nuclear engineer, PhD student UW-Madison. nuclear: energy, history, waste, nonproliferation. "Tells uranium's life story". Lives in New Mexico. Outdoors when I'm not actively working on graduating. Views mine. she/her nuclearkatie.com
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Simultaneous single-particle uranium isotopic determination and fluorine detection is a useful new capability for nonproliferation and international safeguards. UF6 is the chemical form used in uranium enrichment, a key step in the nuclear fuel cycle #NukeSkyphys.org/news/2024-09... 🧪

Simultaneous detection of uranium isotopes and fluorine advances nuclear nonproliferation monitoring
Simultaneous detection of uranium isotopes and fluorine advances nuclear nonproliferation monitoring

Combining two techniques, analytical chemists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have become the first to detect fluorine and different isotopes of uranium in a single particl...

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It just puts you ill at ease. Like you know you're supposed to pay attention now because something important to the plot is about to happen

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Thanks! If you can believe it, I post more depressed grad student energy when I'm actually doing pretty well. When I actually feel terrible I log off (of posting, I'm always lurking) and make IRL folks deal with my bad vibes

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Villian-ass kitchen

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Occasionally I open up LinkedIn intending to post (I'm early career, gotta play the game) but then I scroll for a few minutes and declare "THIS PLACE IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR" and throw my phone into a canyon for a while. Happens every time!

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Try this one weird trick to generate clean power from strange rocks >>>

A picture of Enrico Fermi, who lead the development of the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile 1. The text is in the style of a clickbait ad on a sketchy website. At the top, it says "Fossil Fuel Companies Hate Him!" in red text, and below "Scientist dividers weird new trick to clean abundant energy. Click Here >>>"
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Ah looks like you're not in the US so I should clarify I did 6/6.5 years of science in the 4 years of high school in the US

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I got some advice like that and ended up graduating high school with 6 or maybe 6.5 years worth of science classes. While sometimes I think AP lang might have helped (there's a lot of writing in science!), I don't have any regrets about chasing the classes that interested me

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Katie Mummah
@nuclearkatie.com
Nuclear engineer, PhD student UW-Madison. nuclear: energy, history, waste, nonproliferation. "Tells uranium's life story". Lives in New Mexico. Outdoors when I'm not actively working on graduating. Views mine. she/her nuclearkatie.com
1k followers432 following494 posts