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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.
N. J. McCormick, R. J. Doyas
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 37 | Number 2 | August 1969 | Pages 252-261
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20685
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The method of singular eigenfunction expansions is applied to the time-independent one-speed Milne problem in which there are two half-space media. It is assumed that scattering in each medium is at most linear in the cosine of the scattering angle; closed form expressions are then obtained for the expansion coefficients. Numerical results show the dependence upon the scattering parameters of the extrapolation distance and the discontinuities in the asymptotic densities and currents at the interface. These results give the proper boundary conditions to be applied when using diffusion theory in problems involving two or more plane layers which are thick as compared to the mean-free-paths of the media.