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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.
R. K. Paschall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 1 | September 1966 | Pages 73-79
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17189
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The age of fission neutrons to indium resonance energy (1.46 eV) was measured in mixtures of aluminum and water. Three different volume ratios of metal-to-water were investigated. The technique of a finite-plane fission source with essentially infinite-plane detectors was used previously at this laboratory to measure the age in pure water, mixtures of zirconium and water, and mixtures of iron and water. Similar to the iron-water mixtures, but in contrast to the zirconium water mixtures, the general curve of age vs metal-to-water ratio is not a linear function with aluminum-water mixtures. The curvature is caused by inelastic scattering in the iron and aluminum. For metal-to-water ratios of 0.25, 0.50, and 1.0, this experiment gave ages of 33.9 ± 0.6 cm2, 43.2 ± 0.8 cm2, and 59.6 ± 0.9 cm2, respectively.