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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.
D. K. Olsen, R. W. Ingle, J. L. Portney
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 82 | Number 3 | December 1982 | Pages 289-306
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19390
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Using the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator pulsed neutron source and a 1-mm-thick lithium glass detector, neutron transmission spectra through 232Th have been measured at 22- and 40-m flight paths. At 22 m, transmission spectra through samples of five thicknesses were measured from 7 meV to 15 eV. At 40 m, spectra through samples of eight thicknesses were measured from 15 eV to 4 keV. The resulting total cross section from 0.1 to 20.0 eV is smaller than that given by the ENDF/B-V evaluation. Least-squares shape analysis of the transmissions up to 2.0 keV gives larger neutron widths above 0.5 keV than those previously reported. An average radiation width of 25.2 meV is obtained for 19 low-energy s-wave resonances.