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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.
L. Green, J. A. Mitchell, N. M. Steen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 3 | November 1973 | Pages 406-412
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A19488
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The 233U fission neutron spectrum has been measured by pulsed-beam time-of-flight techniques from 0.8 to 10 MeV. Above ≈2 MeV, the data were found, within statistics, to be adequately represented by either the model in the ENDF/B-III file or a best fit Maxwellian distribution with nearly the same average energy. At lower energy, the data appear to follow the ENDF/B representation somewhat more closely. The fit of a Maxwellian distribution to the 233U data yielded an average “temperature” parameter of 1.34 ± 0.02 MeV, where the error includes both statistical and systematic uncertainties. A similar fit to data taken for a 235U sample yielded a temperature parameter of 1.31 ± 0.03 MeV; however, the best estimated difference in temperature is 16 ± 6 keV.