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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.
S. T. Perkins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 1970 | Pages 25-31
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A21168
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Doppler broadening of neutron cross sections is described under the combined influence of temperature and boundary motion. The effective cross section is explicitly presented for the two cases of a constant speed, isotropic boundary motion (which is identical to the condition of an isotropic neutron flux), and also a constant speed, monodirectional boundary motion. The functional relations interconnecting the effective cross section at different temperatures and boundary motion velocities are pointed out. The results of numerical calculations are also presented.