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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.
Dongmei Pan, Zijia Zhao, Zhong Chen, Zhongliang Lv, Junhan Li
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 4 | May 2019 | Pages 317-323
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1570809
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Rates of neutron production in deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasmas below the temperature of 100 keV have been widely studied with analytical cross sections based on nuclear physics. In the present work, a new algorithm of numerical simulation using the latest nuclear database ENDF/B-VII, discrete ordinate (SN) method, and Monte Carlo methods was developed to describe nuclear reactions in D-T plasma. Compared with the method that used analytical cross section, this new method can predict the nuclear reaction in plasma to several hundreds of kilo-electron-volts and has the potential to give information about directionality of the neutron flux and other interesting nuclear reactions, if needed.