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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 4 | August 1975 | Pages 335-340
Technical Notes | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A15426
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Spherical lithium-metal assemblies with and without a graphite reflector were prepared by stacking lithium arid graphite blocks to investigate the neu-tronics in the fusion reactor blanket. The ratio of 238 U-to-285U fission rates was measured by micro -fission chambers. The fission ratio was calculated by the one-dimensional transport code ANISN with the Pg-Sg approximation using a 42-group neutron cross-section set. The fission ratios measured in the lithium-metal assembly without a graphite reflector agree well with the calculated ones. In the assembly with a graphite reflector, however, there is a large discrepancy between experiment and calculation.