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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.
Bal Raj Sehgal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 3 | December 1968 | Pages 251-262
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A21090
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Analysis of the nearly homogeneous enriched uranium-graphite critical assemblies described in the preceding paper by Phelps and Weinstock are reported in this paper. These assemblies are characterized mainly by their high leakage rate, and two methods are used for estimating the leakage: 1) the conventional B1 approximation method and 2) the moments method using Monte Carlo calculations for the moments of the slowing down distribution. It is found that the B1 approximation describes the leakage effects quite accurately. Most of the cross sections used in the calculations are from the recent evaluated nuclear data file (ENDF/B). Results of calculations for keff, neutron lifetimes, and foil activation ratios are generally in excellent agreement with the measurements.