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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.
V. C. Rogers, D. R. Dixon, C. G. Hoot, D. Costello, V. J. Orphan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 62 | Number 4 | April 1977 | Pages 716-725
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A15212
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Gamma-ray production cross sections were measured for (n,xγ) reactions in natural copper from 0.68- to 19.6-MeV neutron energy using the IRT Linac pulsed neutron source and a Ge(Li) detection system measuring gamma rays in the energy range from 365 to 6620 keV. Cross sections for 65 gamma rays are given using 17 neutron energy groups. For an additional 21 discrete gamma rays of uncertain origin, cross sections were determined for 11 neutron energy groups. The gamma-ray spectra for 16 neutron energy groups were also unfolded to obtain gamma-ray production cross sections for the sum of both discrete and continuum gamma rays. The cross sections are in general agreement with previous work for both the discrete peaks and the unfolded spectra, except near 15 MeV. Measurements of the discrete lines provide needed experimental data for the neutron energy region from 3 to 20 MeV.