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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.
Francis H. Clark
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 235-239
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-1
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Calculations were set up to determine the effect of the grazing flux on the surface-crossing flux estimator and the pillbox track-length estimator used in Monte Carlo calculations. It was found that grazing particles make only higher order contributions to current or flux but significantly increase the variance. These effects are more pronounced at internal surfaces than at external boundaries. The use of nonstochastic methods to estimate contributions of grazing particles is justified.