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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. H. Fulmer, D. P. Stricos, T. F. Ruane
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 2 | November 1971 | Pages 314-317
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22365
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Neutron absorption cross sections for 94Zr and 96Zr were measured by an activation technique. Absolute gamma-ray counting of the radioactive daughters, with a Ge(Li) detector-multichannel analyzer system, yielded disintegration rates which were calibrated in terms of cross section with gold samples. Results, in barns, for 2200 m/sec cross sections and resonance integrals are 94Zr, 0.052 ± 0.003, 0.30 ± 0.03; 96Zr, 0.020 ± 0.003, 5.0 ± 0.4, respectively. The low value of the 96Zr thermal cross section requires that the resonance at 301 eV be p wave.