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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.
Pekka Jauho, Markku Rajamäki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 43 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 145-153
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A21262
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The solutions to the one-dimensional energy-dependent Boltzmann equations for two different media are shown to possess such a full-range completeness property that an arbitrary function satisfying a Hölder condition can be expanded in terms containing solutions to both equations. These solutions are given by Leonard and Ferziger. This property makes it possible to solve energy-dependent neutron transport problems for two adjacent media. In comparison with half-space problems, one must solve two more inhomogeneous Fredholm integral equations. The scheme of the extension to multilayer system is also represented. In using the multigroup method, the series solutions of the Fredholm equations are rapidly convergent, if the energy dependences of the total cross sections in both adjacent media are roughly of the same form.