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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.
Thomas E. Stephenson, Alberto M. Ferrer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 2 | November 1971 | Pages 266-273
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22360
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Resonance parameters for 74 resonances of 165Ho below 500 eV, selected from the literature and from values compiled and recommended in BNL-325, are used as the starting point in fitting the total neutron cross-section data to a sum of the Breit-Wigner multilevel scattering and single-level capture formulas. The addition of two bound levels, one for each s-wave spin state, yields a calculated ratio of thermal neutron capture cross sections for the two s-wave spin states which agrees with experiment (≈60% of thermal capture into J = 3 states), as does the calculated value of the thermal capture cross section, 67 b. In addition, the two bound levels enable the fit of the total cross-section data to be extended to very low energies (0.2 mV). The coherent scattering cross section has been calculated and is in good agreement with the experimental value of 9.1 b. The free atom nuclear scattering cross section has been calculated to be 10.6 b. The calculated value of the potential scattering is 7.8 b and the effective scattering radius is 7.9 f. The energy-dependent paramagnetic scattering cross section (23.5 b at 0.0253 eV) and the capture and scattering resonance integrals have also been calculated (≈703 and 125 b, respectively).