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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.
H. H. Hogue, P. L. von Behren, D. W. Glasgow, S. G. Glendinning, P. W. Lisowski, C. E. Nelson, F. O. Purser, W. Tornow, C. R. Gould, L. W. Seagondollar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 1 | January 1979 | Pages 22-29
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A21281
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Differential cross sections are reported for the elastic and discrete inelastic scattering of neutrons from 6Li and 7Li. Source neutrons were provided by the 2H(d,n)3He reaction in the energy range from 7 to 14 MeV. Scattered neutrons were detected at a distance of 3.9 m at angles from 25 to 160 deg in 5-deg intervals. Total cross sections were obtained for elastic scattering from 6Li and for the sum of elastic and 0.478-MeV state inelastic scattering from 7Li. Inelastic scattering cross sections were obtained for the 2.18-MeV state in 6Li and the 4.63-MeV state in 7Li. The results are compared to ENDF/B-IV predictions and to previous measurements. Inelastic scattering to the 4.63-MeV state in 7Li accounts for less than half of the total tritium production cross section for neutron interactions with 7Li.
