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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.
A. Dubi, A. Goldfeld, K. Burn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 93 | Number 2 | June 1986 | Pages 204-213
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17669
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The direct statistical approach was used recently to obtain analytic expressions for the second moment and the average time per source particle in a general case of multisurface geometry splitting. A practical algorithm is given for the calculation of the second moment as a function of the splitting parameters on the surfaces. The algorithm is used to calculate an explicit expression for the efficiency in a problem involving streaming of neutrons in a straight section of a concentric coolant pipe of a fast reactor. The results are used to obtain the optimum splitting range on four surfaces.