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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.
Bruce I. Hauss, William E. Kastenberg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 2 | February 1979 | Pages 326-333
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20621
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An improved space-time kinetics method that can be applied to the analysis of either fast or thermal reactor transients is presented. The method blends the concepts of formal reduction (i. e., the quasi-static method) and time synthesis into a single unified approach (called quasi-static synthesis) to handle spacetime equations. Preliminary results obtained with the method indicate reduced computer time, while maintaining computational accuracy, when compared to several other kinetics methods presently in use.