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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.
J. W. Codding, Jr., R. L. Tromp, F. B. Simpson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 1971 | Pages 58-65
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A21246
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The total neutron cross section of 147Pm has been measured from 0.01 to 1000 eV, using compacted oxide samples in the Materials Testing Reactor (MTR) fast chopper. After correcting the data for decay product 147Sm content and water contaminant bias, the total cross section of 147Pm at 0.0253 eV was found to be b. Resonance parameters were determined up to 250 eV by shape-fitting and area analysis, and a negative energy resonance has been postulated to fit the data at thermal. From these parameters a resonance absorption integral of 2192 ± 100 b and a neutron s-wave strength function have been obtained.
