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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.
F. Castiglia, E. Oliveri
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 86 | Number 3 | March 1984 | Pages 297-301
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A17558
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In photon transport calculations by a Monte Carlo method, the solution of the inverse Klein-Nishina cumulative distribution function for random selection of a photon energy upon Compton scattering is not practical; moreover, Koblinger's procedure cannot be applied for incoming photon energies less than . In this case the sampling rejection methods (SRMs), especially the nonuniform ones, represent a good alternative. A number of SRMs for the Klein-Nishina probability density function are presented; some of the methods have very high selection efficiencies. These techniques are tested within the bounds of computer time required for a successful selection. At least one of them is appreciably advantageous over those previously proposed.