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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.
K. Gopala, B. Rudraswamy, P. Venkataramaiah, H. Sanjeeviah
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 95 | Number 3 | March 1987 | Pages 206-213
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A20450
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The external bremsstrahlung (EB) spectra generated in thick targets by the beta particles of 170Tm are measured using a 4.55- × 5.08-cm NaI(Tl) crystal detector in a good geometry setup. The raw spectra are unfolded using the Liden-Starfelt procedure. The unfolded EB spectra are compared with Bethe-Heitler, Elwert-corrected Bethe-Heitler, Morgan-corrected Bethe-Heitler, and Tseng and Pratt theories. The experimental spectra are found to agree with the theory of Tseng and Pratt up to a certain energy and deviate positively thereafter. The deviation from theory increases with increasing energy and atomic number of the target material.
