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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.
R. W. Campbell, R. K. Paschall, V. A. Swanson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1964 | Pages 445-454
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A20986
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The age of fission neutrons to indium-resonance energy has been measured in AGOT graphite using the point-source technique. Corrections to the data arising from the following factors were investigated: (a) source and foil size, (b) finite dimensions of medium, (c) higher- and/or lower-energy activations, and (d) angular sensitivity of detector foils. The age was determined to be 307.8 ± 1.9 cm2; the fourth and sixth moments were 6.58 ± 0.05 × 106 cm4 and 3.84 ± 0.06 × 1010 cm6, respectively. These agree well with the values of 307.4 ± 1.0 cm2, 6.59 ± 0.06 × 106 cm4, and 4.01 ± 0.09 × 1010 cm6 obtained by Monte Carlo calculations.