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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.
I. Kuščer and N. J. McCormick
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 4 | December 1966 | Pages 522-529
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18423
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For time- and velocity-dependent neutron transport theory, a reciprocity theorem is discussed that expresses a symmetry property of point-source or plane-source solutions in systems of uniform temperature. As a consequence of the theorem, the coefficients in a decay-mode expansion are found to be the adjoints of the normalized modes. A long-time solution of the time-dependent albedo problem for a thick slab is derived from diffusion theory, with the aid of the reciprocity theorem. The reflected and transmitted net currents and angular densities are expressed in terms of the solution of the steady-state Milne problem.