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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.
G. E. Stokes, R. P. Schuman, and O. D. Simpson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 1 | July 1968 | Pages 16-23
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20913
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The total neutron cross section of 182Ta has been measured from 0.01 to 1000 eV using the MTR fast chopper. The observed total neutron cross section at 0.0253 eV is 8200 ± 600 b. Parameters of individual resonances below 30 eV and average parameters at higher energies give a resonance absorption integral of 943 ± 50 b and a neutron s-wave strength function of (1 ± 0.1) × 10−4 (eV) 1/2. The possible use of 182Ta as a neutron temperature monitor is discussed.
