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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 37 | Number 1 | July 1969 | Pages 104-110
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20902
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A method of solving the time-energy dependent problem in reactor physics is explained. This method uses an iterative process to solve the steady-state Boltzmann equation and takes advantage of the implicit time variable concealed in this equation and released by the iterative calculations. Various examples of calculations are presented for fast and thermal reactors. They reveal some interesting features of kinetics neutron population and provide information for understanding reactor kinetics and time-of-flight spectra obtained both in fast and thermal subcritical systems.