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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.
Yorio Gotoh, Hiroshi Takahashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 45 | Number 2 | August 1971 | Pages 126-140
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A20880
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Since the model in which the water molecules form partially “ice-like” clusters explains the thermodynamic properties, the so-called itinerant oscillator model is applied to the motion of water molecules. The assumption is made that the atoms in a molecule receive stochastic forces from the neighboring molecules. The model of water with the stochastic force, of which the correlation functions are a delta function and a simple exponential, is discussed. The generalized frequency distributions of light and heavy water are derived from the model. The incoherent calculations of scattering laws of light and heavy water are compared with measurements. The model predicts well the total scattering cross section of light water, but the average cosine of scattering angle is slightly higher than that of the experiment. Further refinements in the model are discussed.