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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.
Bruno Pellaud
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 2 | August 1968 | Pages 169-186
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20655
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The linear extrapolation distance, extrapolated endpoint, and effective radius of grey and black cylindrical neutron absorbers imbedded in an infinite moderator have been calculated using Kofink's formulation of the PN method, with N odd up to 13. These parameters were determined as functions of the absorption of the moderator and of the linear anisotropic scattering component of the moderator, for two source distributions: 1) uniform isotropic sources; or 2) no sources with a current from infinity. The results are given both in tabular form and in simple formulas that are sufficiently accurate for most purposes. In addition, various kinds of PN boundary conditions are compared and new calculations are given for the blackness of homogeneous grey rods.