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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.
J. H. Marable, C. R. Weisbin, G. de Saussure
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 75 | Number 1 | July 1980 | Pages 30-55
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A20316
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Using an extensive data base of sensitivities and evaluated covariances, this work incorporates 11 fast-reactor benchmark experiments and 2 neutron-field benchmark experiments into the adjustment of a 26-group cross-section library based primarily on Evaluated Nuclear Data File (ENDF)/B-IV. The covariance data include correlations between cross sections for different energies, reactions, and materials, and between integral experiments, and covariances of calculational bias factors due to specific modeling and calculational procedures. The adjustments of the group cross sections are examined in some detail and are smaller than the estimated standard deviations. The results of the adjustment are applied to the determination of the uncertainties in the multiplication factor and in the breeding ratio of a large liquid-metal fast breeder reactor design model fixed by the Large Core Code Evaluation Working Group. For this static model the adjustment procedure reduces the calculated uncertainty in keff from 3.1% to 0.5% and in breeding ratio for the critical reactor from 3.5% to 1.9%.