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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.
Dušan Babala
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 2 | May 1967 | Pages 243-246
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17474
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Formulas for interval distributions of neutron counts, which open possibilities for new methods of reactor noise measurements, are derived. The proposed experimental techniques promise to be less time consuming than the zero probability method of Mogilner and Zolotukhin. The useful information contained in a sequence of counts lies in its deviation from Poisson statistics. The magnitude of this deviation depends either on the counter efficiency or on the intensity of the external neutron source. From this point of view, the techniques of noise measurements can be divided into two groups: the “efficiency sensitive” methods (Feynman) and the “power sensitive” methods (Rossi-α). The proposed count-to-count interval distribution measurement seems to combine the advantages of both groups.