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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.
G. Palmiotti, M. Salvatores, J. C. Estiot, G. Granget
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 2 | June 1983 | Pages 150-155
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17721
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Sensitivity methods based on generalized perturbation theory are very valuable tools for the reactor designer in many areas of interest. In general, the first-order formulations are routinely used, and higher order effects are neglected. In the present Note, we have developed a practical approach to take into account higher order effects in time-dependent sensitivity analysis in the nuclide field for fuel-cycle-related problems, and we give examples of its use in cases of interest.