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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.
A. Ziya Akcasu and Larry D. Noble
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 25 | Number 4 | August 1966 | Pages 427-429
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18564
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Two criteria for the Lagrange stability in reactors with an arbitrary linear feedback have been derived. The feedback kernel is assumed to be G(t) = rδ(t) + K(t), where r is the power-reactivity coefficient, and K(t), which is assumed to be bounded and integrable in (0, ∞), represents other feedback effects. The Laplace transform of K(t) is denoted by (s). It is found that “a) if r < 0 and r + (s) = 0 has no positive real roots, and b) if K(x)dx ≤ 0 for all t ≥ 0 in the case of r = 0, then all the solutions of the kinetic equations are bounded.”