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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. E. Morel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 71 | Number 1 | July 1979 | Pages 64-71
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20332
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A brief history of the extended transport correction for Legendre differential scattering cross-section expansions is presented in conjunction with calculations intended to investigate the validity of such expansions for the extremely forward-peaked scattering characteristic of that experienced by electrons. It is concluded from the results that approximate P11 cross sections obtained with the extended transport correction can yield excellent scalar flux solutions for electrons with energies between 10 keV and 1 MeV, even though P11 expansions are totally inadequate for representing the exact cross sections.
