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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.
J. R. Liaw, H. Henryson II
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 4 | August 1983 | Pages 324-336
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A15453
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The development and evaluation of a lumped fission product neutron cross-section library based on ENDF/B-V data suitable for fast reactor applications have been completed. Both one- and two-lump models have been investigated in detail. Fission product inventories at various burnup steps were calculated by the EPRI-CINDER-2 code and used as weighting functions for lumping. This paper addresses several important issues related to the lumped data including the relative merits of the two models, the dependence on burnup history, the influence of fuel composition and neutron spectrum, the impact of various data bases, the application of the lumped data, the effect of the scattering matrix, and finally the impact on the fission product reactivity worth in a fast reactor system. Although the data and results contained in this paper are specifically related to a particular mixed-oxide core design, they have general validity and application to other similar liquid-metal fast breeder reactor designs.