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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.
R. L. Macklin, D. M. Drake, E. D. Arthur
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 2 | June 1983 | Pages 98-119
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17717
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Neutron capture cross sections of four stable tungsten isotopes were measured as a function of energy by time of flight at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator. The resolution achieved, ΔE/E of at full-width at half-maximum, has allowed the analysis of several hundred resonance peaks at energies a few kiloelectron volts above the neutron binding energy. Strength functions were fitted to the average cross sections up to ∼100 keV, and average cross sections were extended with less precision from 100 to 2000 keV. The capture cross section of natural tungsten was calculated from measurements for individual isotopes. Compound nucleus calculations have been made with deformed optical model parameters for comparison with experimental cross sections.