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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.
T. H. Springer, S. G. Carpenter and R. J. Tuttle
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 3 | November 1964 | Pages 272-280
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A19569
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A negative Doppler effect has been observed in measurements on a metallic uranium sample (enriched to 93% in U235) placed in a typical fast-reactor spectrum which has a median fission energy of 195 keV. The plausibility of the negative sign is supported on theoretical grounds, although with the use of standard analytical techniques and the limited number of resonance parameters at present available, it cannot be calculated for this spectrum. The value for was found to be -5.65 × 10-6/°C. New measurements on U238 have been made, and the data on Th232, previously published, have been extended to 930 C. The agreement between analytical and experimental values for the latter two materials is good.