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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.
B. A. Worley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 91 | Number 3 | November 1985 | Pages 293-304
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17306
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A standard assumption used in unit-cell interface-current codes is that neutrons enter each spatial region with an isotropic angular distribution. The physical interpretation of this assumption is discussed, and the magnitude of the error introduced by it is shown for a range of practical unit-cell geometries. An improvement on the calculation of first-flight transmission probabilities for one-dimensional unit cells based on limiting the neutron source angular distribution to physically possible neutron flight directions is then presented. For three-region problems, one additional calculation of a revised outer region transmission probability is sufficient for determining all the revised transmission probabilities of interest. Calculation of the revised transmission probabilities requires only minor coding changes and eliminates the improper angular redistribution of neutrons at the region boundaries.