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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.
K. Clausen, B. Bröcker, P. Schneider-Kühnle, M. Weinert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 4 | December 1976 | Pages 507-520
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A14487
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An experiment to measure the detailed energy, angular, and spatial distribution of neutrons originating from a 14-MeV neutron source in liquid air is presented. The neutron spectra are measured with a proton-recoil NE213 scintillator combined with a collimator. The measurements cover the energy range from 2 to 18 MeV at eight different angles from 0 to 90 deg. The distance between the neutron source and the measurement position varies from 60 cm (52 g/cm2) to 150 cm (130 g/cm2) in liquid air. The results are discussed and compared with known theoretical neutron transport calculations.