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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.
Richard Ziskind, William E. Kastenberg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 44 | Number 1 | April 1971 | Pages 86-94
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A18908
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The stability problem for point kinetics models described by a set of nonlinear differential equations is treated by conversion to a set of Volterra integral equations. The kernels appearing in the resultant set are classified as to monotone behavior and comparison theorems are presented for the various classifications. The comparison theorems are utilized to calculate solution bounds and stability domains for three systems of practical interest: prompt power feedback, single temperature with prompt power coefficient, and the Hansen-Fuchs model. It is shown that similarity transformations are useful for enlarging the stability domain. An iteration procedure is also developed for a particular class of integral operators. This procedure is useful for finding convergent bounds for the true system behavior.