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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. E. Maerker, F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 29 | Number 3 | September 1967 | Pages 444-454
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17293
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Monte Carlo calculations, employing the albedo concept, have been carried out to determine the thermal-neutron flux distributions along the centerlines of a straight, a two-legged, and a three-legged square open concrete duct for a particularly demanding source geometry. The neutrons entering the duct were of thermal energy. The calculations used differential angular albedo data for concrete which have been reported previously. A comparison of the results of the calculations with those from a geometrically similar experiment shows good agreement and places on a firm foundation the concept of treating the thermal-neutron duct transmission problem as a reflection phenomenon at a point that is describable by the differential albedo properties of the walls.