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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.
S. C. Mo, K. O. Ott
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 2 | June 1987 | Pages 112-121
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16371
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A practical methodology is developed to treat the resonance self-shielding transition near zone interfaces. Based on the narrow resonance approximation, a space- and energy-dependent selfshielding factor for a single interface system is derived from the integral transport theory. Using the Wigner rational approximation, the self-shielding factor for a fine region near a zone interface isfac-torized into a linear combination of individual homogeneous and heterogeneous self-shielding factors. The method has been implemented in a widely used cross-section processing code that is based on the Bondarenko f-factor method. The result of the analysis was applied to a fast reactor blanket mock-up to improve the calculations near a converter-blanket interface. Comparisons of the calculation with 238U capture experimental data measured in the Purdue Fast Breeder Blanket Facility are also discussed.