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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. C. Leslie, J. G. Hill, A. Jonsson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 1 | May 1965 | Pages 78-86
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19764
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This paper gives a new and very simple method of calculating Dancoff factors in regular arrays of cylindrical fuel rods. This method is readily applicable to canned fuel, and comparisons with Monte Carlo calculations show that its accuracy is adequate for practical purposes. The paper also gives an extension of the standard equivalence theorem which, unlike the theorem itself, is accurate enough for practical work. This extension enables the resonance integrals of regular arrays to be calculated from the Dancoff factor and from calculations of the resonance integral in homogeneous mixtures. These methods have been compared with the very accurate Monte Carlo calculations of Levine; the result is most satisfactory.