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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.
F. Beranek, R. W. Conn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 71 | Number 2 | August 1979 | Pages 100-110
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20402
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A new discrete neutron transfer cross-section technique has been developed to resolve difficulties found using the traditional Legendre polynomial expansion for time-dependent problems with strong source anisotropy. An important class of such problems is the analysis of blanket performance in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) systems. The new technique can be readily incorporated without formal changes into existing codes that solve the transport equation. A shielding problem and an ICF blanket problem are used as examples to illustrate both the difficulties presented by the traditional approach and the improvements brought about with the new method.