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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.
Shi-Ping Teng, Duaine G. Lindstrom
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 3 | March 1979 | Pages 363-366
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19953
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The criticality constants of fissile solutions containing borated Raschig rings are evaluated using the Monte Carlo code KENO IV with various geometry models. In addition to those used by other investigators, a new geometry model, the random geometry model, is presented to simulate the system of randomly oriented Raschig rings in solution. A technique to obtain the material thickness distribution functions of solution and rings for use in the random geometry model is also presented. Comparison between the experimental data and the calculated results using the Monte Carlo method with various geometry models indicates that the random geometry model is a reasonable alternative to models previously used in describing the system of Raschig-ring-filled solution. The random geometry model also provides a solution to the problem of describing an array containing Raschig-ring-filled tanks that is not available to techniques using other models.