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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.
R. L. Macklin, J. Halperin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 73 | Number 2 | February 1980 | Pages 174-185
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A18697
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Neutron capture by the heavier stable ruthenium isotopes and by natural rhodium has been measured at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator time-of-flight facility up to 500 to 700 keV. Most of these isotopes are important as fission products. Strength functions S0, S1, S2, and Sγ were fitted to the average cross sections derived for the pure isotopes up to 113 keV. Resonance parameters were fitted for ∼100 cross-section peaks for each isotope.