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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. -A. Haldy, J. Ligou
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 74 | Number 3 | June 1980 | Pages 178-184
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A20117
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The Fokker-Planck equation for the transport of energetic charged particles in hot plasmas and for one-dimensional plane geometries is solved by a new multigroup approach. The numerical scheme proposed here takes into account the strong anisotropy of the Coulomb scattering operator, as well as the possible large values of the removal cross section. Numerical results are given for two particular examples: the transport of protons in a boron hydride plasma and of 3.5-MeV alpha particles in a deuterium-tritium plasma. A good agreement is achieved with corresponding results from a less general “moment method” developed in previous works.