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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 3 | March 1981 | Pages 344-351
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19842
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The method of D-partitions is introduced to study the stability property of the reactor dynamic equation with six-delay-group representation. Two kinds of feedback models are considered—the delayed and the two-path temperature feedback. The stability region in parameter space, the effect of delayed neutrons, and the unconditional stability of the two-path temperature feedback are discussed in detail. The corresponding results of the one-delay-group model, one-group prompt-jump approximation, and effective lifetime model are also presented for comparing and discussing the validity or accuracy of these simplified kinetic models.