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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. S. Hendricks, L. L. Carter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 1 | January 1981 | Pages 71-83
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21340
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A calculational benchmark of neutron transport through a slab of iron is based on a rigorous Monte Carlo treatment of ENDF/B-IV and ENDF/B-V cross sections. The model consists of 2-, 14-, and 40-MeV neutrons incident on a 3-m infinite slab. This benchmark problem can be used to validate multigroup cross-section libraries and the associated multigroup transport codes. Plots and tables of the data show the spatial and energy distribution of neutrons for monoenergetic normally incident sources.