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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.
M. C. G. Hall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 3 | July 1982 | Pages 423-431
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A20283
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A major obstacle in obtaining adjusted cross sections from integral experiments is the expensive and time-consuming evaluation of sensitivities and modeling corrections. The principal contribution of this paper is the development of a state-of-the-art Monte Carlo method that evaluates sensitivities particularly efficiently and that uses “point” nuclear data and three-dimensional combinatorial geometry to eliminate modeling errors. This method enables adjustment procedures to be applied more reliably and generally than previously possible. Theoretical advances include the way the sensitivity estimator is chosen and evaluated. Also the adjustment procedure takes into account all the Monte Carlo statistical errors, and iteration is used to cope with nonlinearities. The methods developed are successfully applied to an analysis of the Winfrith Iron Benchmark Experiment.