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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. Dorning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 1 | July 1970 | Pages 22-28
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20359
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Size-dependent extrapolation distances for pulsed-neutron experiments in light-water, spherical, non-multiplying systems have been determined by calculating the buckling in the B-1, 30-group approximation corresponding to a given decay constant. The decay constants for spheres of various radii were taken from an earlier work which reported 30-group Sn calculations of decay constants as a function of system radius. The same 30-group, B-1 method was also used to calculate pulsed-neutron-decay constants as a function of buckling over a wide range of buckling. The static or poisoning experiment inverse-relaxation length, as a function of concentration of a one-over-v poison, was also computed in the same approximation. The resulting data were combined and fitted to yield values of the neutron-diffusion parameters