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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.
Hideo Hirayama, Syuichi Ban, Shigeyuki Miura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 1 | May 1987 | Pages 66-72
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16366
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Electromagnetic cascades produced in lead with 2.5-GeV bremsstrahlung were studied by using a lead glass shower counter and a thin Nal(Tl) scintillator with the help of the Monte Carlo code. Measured pulse-height distributions that show the charged-particle track length or the energy deposition distributions in the detector caused by a single source photon are compared with calculated results. The energy spectra of transmitted particles obtained from the calculation are presented to show the behavior of the electromagnetic cascade development.