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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.
F. A. Hinchey, E. A. Dean, J. B. Pearce
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 1 | September 1964 | Pages 88-92
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A19278
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An approximate solution of the Milne problem in a finite slab for isotropic elastic scattering in a non-absorbing medium is investigated. The problem may be formulated as an integral equation of the Wiener-Hopf type with a finite range of integration. A solution to this integral equation is obtained by the use of finite Fourier transforms, which lead to an infinite system of linear algebraic equations. A highly convergent iterative solution for the truncated system of equations is developed. Numerical results are presented for several slab thicknesses in the case of normal illumination.