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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.
Edward L. Maceda, George H. Miley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 70 | Number 1 | April 1979 | Pages 82-95
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A18930
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A model for the atomic levels above ground state in neutral, U0, and singly ionized, U+, uranium is described based on identified atomic transitions. We found 168 states in U0 and 95 in U+. A total of 1581 atomic transitions are used to complete this process. Also discussed are the atomic inverse lifetimes and line widths for the radiative transitions as well as the electron collisional cross sections.
