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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.
Ahmed Badruzzaman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 89 | Number 3 | March 1985 | Pages 281-290
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17550
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An algorithm is derived for implementing nodal-transport methods in multidimensional geometries more efficiently than with current algorithms. The cellwise storage and computational penalties of the nodal methods are reduced significantly. Central processing unit time is reduced two to four times over the direct nodal algorithm with a constant surface-flux approximation, and the number of coefficients required is reduced twofold. The corresponding reductions are even greater when the new algorithm is utilized in the linear surface flux nodal method. Results of testing in two- and three-dimensional rectangular geometry are presented.