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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.
T. Takeda, E. Wachi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 4 | August 1982 | Pages 551-557
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21445
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An approximate method for calculating the interference of neutron streaming between different regions (drawers) in fast critical assemblies is described by applying the well-known Benoist formula to super cell problems. The interference effect on the diffusion coefficient was numerically evaluated and the results are compared with those obtained by Yoshida’s method. Sodium void worths in control rod positions (control rod follower channel) relative to the sodium-filled channel are calculated on the basis of diffusion theory with the interference effect and compared with the results obtained from transport calculations. The comparison reveals that the inclusion of the interference effect improves the calculational accuracy remarkably.