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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.
Feroz Ahmed, P. S. Grover, L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 3 | March 1968 | Pages 484-491
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A17591
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The propagation of neutron waves through crystalline moderator beryllium has been studied. The two simultaneous integral equations in the real and imaginary part of the flux are reduced to a single homogeneous integral equation in an extended energy interval and this is solved by an iterative procedure to determine the fundamental-mode eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for various angular frequencies of the source. We show that for frequencies exceeding a certain critical frequency ω*, no discrete mode exists. Various parameters have been deduced including D0, the diffusion constant, and C, the diffusion cooling constant. These values are compared with the values obtained from pulsed-neutron experiments.