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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.
William K. Hagan, G. L. Simmons
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 73 | Number 1 | January 1980 | Pages 35-41
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A18706
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Monte Carlo calculations have been performed for neutrons reflecting between two Type 04 concrete plane-parallel interfaces. A new 23-group albedo data base (SAIL) was used in conjunction with the MORSE code to calculate the neutron spectrum at each reflection. It was found that, after thermalization, for the same order of reflection, the number of neutrons in the cavity is dependent on the initial energy of the neutrons. Typical results are presented along with a brief history of the motivations for these calculations.