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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.
Sterrett T. Perkins, Dermott E. Cullen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 1 | January 1981 | Pages 20-39
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21336
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We consider all 25 projectile-target combinations of the particles p, d, t, 3He, and α. We obtained nuclear plus interference elastic cross sections for such interactions by subtracting Coulomb contributions from experimental data. We present evaluated graphs of the following resulting quantities, integrated over center-of-mass scattering cosine: reaction rate, average fractional energy loss per collision, average fractional energy loss per unit path length, and average laboratory scattering cosine. This information can be used to correct energy loss rates due to Coulomb scattering, or in more exact transport calculations that account for large-angle nuclear scattering.