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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.
Edward Garelis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 2 | February 1964 | Pages 242-245
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18324
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An improved pulsing technique is described that should simplify the experimental procedure in obtaining reliable pulsed data for both the α-measurement and the (kß/) technique. It is shown that an equilibrium pulse shape can be obtained by continuing the time-channel analyzer after the last neutron burst to record all of the neutrons arising from the delayed precursors and providing the recording starts simultaneously with the initial burst. The source strength (neutrons per burst) need not be constant.