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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.
E. L. Slaggie
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 30 | Number 2 | November 1967 | Pages 199-212
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17331
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Methods of correcting double-differential slow-neutron scattering data for multiple scattering have been investigated and applied to three important experimental studies of room-temperature water. The corrections obtained are very significant, particularly for low-momentum transfer data, which in some cases require corrections of 50% or more. However, uncertainties are introduced into the correction process by sensitivity to theoretical models, which must be used to calculate the multiple scattering. The choice of the correction method and interpretation of the corrected results in the presence of these uncertainties is considered in detail.