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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.
L. C. Leal, H. Derrien, N. M. Larson, R. Q. Wright
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 131 | Number 2 | February 1999 | Pages 230-253
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE99-A2031
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A new R-matrix analysis of the 235U cross-section data in the 0- to 2250-eV energy region is presented. The analysis was performed with the SAMMY computer code that has recently been updated to permit, for the first time, inclusion of both differential and integral data within the analysis process. Fourteen differential data sets and six integral quantities were used in this evaluation: two measurements of fission plus capture, one of fission plus absorption, six of fission alone, two of transmission, and one of eta, plus standard values of thermal cross sections for fission and capture, and of K1 and the Westcott g factors for both fission and absorption. An excellent representation was obtained for the high-resolution transmission, fission, and capture cross-section data as well for the integral quantities. The result is a single set of resonance parameters spanning the entire range up to 2250 eV, a decided improvement over the present ENDF/B-VI evaluation, in which 11 discrete resonance parameter sets are required to cover that same energy range. This new evaluation is expected to greatly improve predictability of the criticality safety margins for nuclear systems in which 235U is present.