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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.
L. Amyot, P. Benoist
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 2 | May 1967 | Pages 215-225
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17471
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A new method of calculation is presented for directional probabilities of interaction in pin clusters and rod lattices. The theory, in principle rigorous from a geometrical point of view, has been programmed for the IBM-7090 as the computer code PROCOPE. Calculation results for Dancoff correction factors and collision probabilities are compared with values obtained with other methods. The validity of the technique is also checked by evaluating the fine structure of the thermal flux distributions in various gas-cooled clusters upon which measurements have been made at Saclay. As a practical illustration, a series of curves describes the behavior of the various independent fuel-to-fuel collision probabilities in 19−(or 7−) pin gas-cooled clusters. Finally, approximate formulas are given for the pin-to-pin collision probability at both the white and the black limits.