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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.
R. E. Maerker, F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 4 | August 1965 | Pages 455-462
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A20632
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Monte Carlo calculations have been carried out in great detail on the reflection properties of concrete for fast neutrons. This paper presents the results for the differential angular dose albedo for various incident-beam conditions and touches upon some of the other distributions calculated. The following formula is offered to represent the calculated differential angular dose albedo to better than 10% for about 95% of the values obtained, and which can be used to extend the results to the entire hemispherical range for both incident and reflected neutron velocity vectors:
