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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.
R. D. M. Garcia, C. E. Siewert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 136 | Number 1 | September 2000 | Pages 140-149
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE00-A2150
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An analytical version of the discrete ordinates method is used to solve a class of boundary-value problems based on a linear Boltzmann equation relevant to the transport of neutral hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen plasma. In addition to a complete development of the discrete ordinates method for the considered application, the computational algorithm is implemented to yield very accurate results for a number of half-space and finite-slab problems. The developed code is also used to correct some entries in a previously reported tabulation of results. The established algorithm is considered especially easy to use, and the code runs (typically) in <1 s on a 400-MHz Pentium-based personal computer.