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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.
J. Halperin and R. W. Stoughton, C. M. Stevens, D. E. Ferguson and D. C. Overholt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 2 | May 1956 | Pages 108-111
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A17515
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Depleted uranium was irradiated in the thermal neutron flux of the Low Intensity Test Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. From mass spectrographic analysis of Pu240 and from chemical determination of Pu content, the effective capture cross section (including both thermal and epithermal neutron capture) was determined for Np239 to be 80 ± 15 barns.
