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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. Halperin, C. E. Bemis, Jr., J. W. T. Dabbs, B. H. Ketelle, R. W. Stoughton, R. W. Hoff, R. J. Dougan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 75 | Number 1 | July 1980 | Pages 56-59
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A20317
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The prompt neutron multiplicity distribution for the spontaneous fission of 242Cm has been measured. The measurement has been carried out with a neutron multiplicity counter using hydrogen moderation and neutron detection with 3He proportional gas counters. The fission chamber is of a novel design enabling the measurement of fission fragments in the presence of high alpha intensities. We report a value of (242Cm) = 2.532 ± 0.013, which is in turn based on an assumed value for (252Cf) = 3.760.
