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What’s in your Dubai chocolate? Nuclear scientists test pistachios for toxins
For the uninitiated, Dubai chocolate is a candy bar filled with pistachio and tahini cream and crispy pastry recently popularized by social media influencers. While it’s easy to dismiss as a viral craze now past its peak, the nutty green confection has spiked global pistachio demand, and growers and processors are ramping up production. That means more pistachios need to be tested for aflatoxins—a byproduct of a common crop mold.
K. Bingham Cady, Melville Clark, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 4 | April 1964 | Pages 491-507
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18768
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A calculational method for Boltzmann's one-velocity, isotropic scattering transport equation is developed for cylindrical rods. The starting point is Peierls' integral equation, and the technique may be interpreted as a moments method or a variational method. Numerical results in the form of graphs are given for a set of standard problems. These problems include volume sources, surface sources, and the critical rod problem. For arbitrary, axially symmetric sources inside or outside the rod, a knowledge of the uncollided flux is sufficient to determine the escape probability from the rod in terms of these standard problems.