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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.
O. J. Wallace
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 1 | May 1981 | Pages 85-88
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19610
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A nonsingular form of the point kernel integrand based on the work of Ono and Tsuro has been implemented for cylindrical sources in two point-kernel computer programs. Numeric integration over the source volume is accomplished by Gauss quadrature or by a three-dimensional extension of Patterson's automatic quadrature algorithm. The latter flux calculation method is two to five times faster for exterior detector points when compared to the Patterson algorithm quadrature of the conventional form of the point kernel over a cylinder.