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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.
P. D. Krishnani, K. R. Srinivasan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 1 | May 1981 | Pages 97-103
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19614
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A method based on interface current formalism has been developed for solving the integral transport equation for cylindered pressurized heavy water reactor fuel lattices. In this a fuel cluster is divided into various rings, which are further subdivided into homogeneous zones like fuel, cladding, and associated coolant. The region outside the fuel cluster is also divided into a number of concentric annular (homogeneous) regions. A cosine current approximation is assumed at all the interfaces of the rings and annular regions while interactions between zones within a ring are directly calculated by the Pij method. In addition to this, the usual flat flux approximation is assumed for each of the homogeneous zones/regions. Based on this method, we have developed a one-group code, ANPROB, for calculating the flux distribution. The results obtained from the present method for 19- and 28-rod cluster lattices have been compared with the exact collision probability (Pij) method for clusters. It is found that the present method reduces the computational time considerably without sacrificing much of the accuracy.