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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.
Donald F. Shook, Donald Bogart, Donald L. Alger-and Robert A. Muller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 4 | December 1966 | Pages 453-461
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18416
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Thermal-neutron flux perturbation factors have been measured for dysprosium - aluminum alloy foils in water and uranyl fluoride-water solutions. The foils are representative of a type widely used for thermal-neutron flux surveys. The measurements provide additional data for comparison with analytical calculations of foil perturbation factors in water. The uranyl fluoride-water solutions used comprise absorptive diffusion media different from water or graphite that have been studied exclusively in the past. The edges of the thicker dysprosium-aluminum foils used are a significant part of the total foil surface so that the data provide a test for several proposed edge corrections to perturbation factor calculations. The experimental perturbation factors are in good agreement with the predictions of published calculational methods except for the dimensionless generalization of Dalton and Osborn.