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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.
Eldon Schmidt, Philip F. Rose
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 3 | July 1983 | Pages 300-304
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17800
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A modern continuous energy-angle Monte Carlo program has been used to perform neutron shielding calculations for a fusion shield. The SAM-CE Monte Carlo program developed by the Mathematical Applications Group has been used for a demonstration calculation of an Oak Ridge National Laboratory fusion shield benchmark with a deuterium-tritium neutron source. Calculations were made for three shielding configurations. They were compared with experiment and also with previous calculations using Sn with first- and last-flight modifications. Agreement with experiment was found to be good at high (>14-MeV) and low (<5-MeV) energies. At intermediate energies where the fluxes are much lower, the agreement was less accurate differing by as much as factors of 2 or 3 in extreme cases. An improved resolution broadening function for the NE-213 detectors helped reduce some of these differences.