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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.
D. W. Glasgow, F. O. Purser, H. Hogue, J. C. Clement, K. Stelzer, G. Mack, J. R. Boyce, D. H. Epperson, S. G. Buccino, P. W. Lisowski, S. G. Glendinning, E. G. Bilpuch, H. W. Newson, C. R. Gould
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 4 | December 1976 | Pages 521-533
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A14488
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A fast-neutron time-of-flight spectrometer has been constructed for the purpose of measuring neutron differential cross sections of interest to the controlled thermonuclear reactor (CTR) program. The experimental facility provides the capability of measuring scattering cross sections of a few mb/sr to ∼5% absolute accuracy in the energy range from 6 to 15 MeV. Source neutrons are provided by the D(d,n)3He reaction. Scattered neutrons are detected at 28 angles between 25 and 160 deg in a massively shielded NE218 liquid scintillator located 4 m from the scattering sample. Absolute cross sections are obtained by normalizing to n-p scattering. Differential elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections are reported for 8.97-, 9.19-, 9.55-, 9.96-, 10.21-, 10.69-, 10.96-, 11.16-, 11.73-, 11.96-, 12.44-, 12.95-, 13.95-, 14.43-, and 14.93- MeV neutrons incident upon high-purity carbon. Monte Carlo simulation has been used to correct for finite source and sample effects. These data partially fill the 9- to 15-MeV gap in the carbon elastic and inelastic scattering data set required for the CTR program.