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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.
S.Pearlstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 95 | Number 2 | February 1987 | Pages 116-127
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A20422
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Neutron emission spectra from targets bombarded by 318-, 590-, and 800-MeV protons are analyzed. At each emission angle the major features of the emergent neutrons throughout their energy range can be described by the sum of four evaporation terms. The characteristic emission temperatures are approximately the same for eight targets in the mass range of A = 12 to 238. The (p,xn) cross section at an incident proton energy of 590 MeV varies very nearly as A4/3. A parameterized model with parameter covariances is developed that describes for the above proton energy range the essential features of neutron emission spectra including quasi-elastic peaks. Calculation times are very short, of the order of 1 s.