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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.
Richard Sanchez
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 2 | February 1986 | Pages 247-254
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A18172
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A flat-flux expansion on axially symmetric zones has been used, together with a uniform double PI expansion for the boundary angular fluxes, to construct an interface-current method for the calculation of two-dimensional hexagonal cells. Collision and escape probabilities are computed in a volume-preserving, cylindrical cell model, while one of three separate PSS models is used for the calculation of the transmission probabilities. When only one zone has been cylinderized, then use of the heterogeneous PSS model is equivalent to an exact calculation in the actual two-dimensional cell geometry (without cylinderization). Comparison between the different approximations and a Monte Carlo calculation are presented for a typical undermoderated assembly.