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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. J. Orphan, C. G. Hoot, V. C. Rogers
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 4 | August 1975 | Pages 309-327
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A15423
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Gamma-ray production cross sections were measured for (n, xγ) reactions in natural iron from 0.86- to 16.74-MeV neutron energy using the IRT Linac pulsed-neutron source. The 847- and 1238-keV gamma-ray production cross sections are presented with very high neutron resolution. Also, cross sections for 13 principal gamma rays are given using 20 neutron-energy groups. Cross sections were determined for an additional 16 discrete gamma rays using 10 neutron-energy groups. In general, the cross sections for the discrete gamma rays are in agreement with previous measurements. The gamma-ray spectra for the 10 neutron-energy groups were also unfolded to obtain gamma-ray production cross sections for the sum of both discrete and continuum gamma rays. In the present work the continuum component constituted over half the total gamma-ray production cross sections above 8 MeV.