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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.
Marion L. Stelts, John D. Anderson, Luisa F. Hansen, Ernest F. Plechaty, Calvin Wong
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 1 | October 1971 | Pages 53-60
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22335
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The validity of the neutron Monte Carlo transport code, SORS, has been established for the transport of fast neutrons through water by comparing the measured time spectra of neutrons from spherical water targets of 1.0 and 1.8 mean-free-paths radii with the calculations. The energy degradation and spatial spreading of a beam of 14-MeV neutrons through a thickness of water comparable to the thickness of a human body were calculated for use in the design of experiments to treat cancer tumors with 14-MeV neutron beams. For use in shielding applications, further calculations have also been made of the transport of neutrons from an isotropic source of 14-MeV neutrons located at the center of spherical water shields having radii from 0.5 to 7.0 mfp.