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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.
J. C. Young, J. M. Neill, D. H. Houston, J. R. Beyster
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 1 | September 1965 | Pages 34-44
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19257
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Spatially dependent neutron-spectrum measurements have been made in both light and heavy water, using the General Atomic Linear Accelerator Facility and standard time-of-flight techniques. The measurements were made with varying geometrical arrangements, and both 1/v and resonance absorbers were utilized to simulate reactor poisons. The measurements were compared to calculations performed with an SN transport code utilizing the bound scattering models proposed for these moderators. The agreement between theory and experiment for the Nelkin model for H2O and Honeck&pos;s extension of this model to D2O is shown to be very satisfactory for the cases studied.