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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. W. Benjamin, K. W. MacMurdo, J. D. Spencer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 2 | February 1972 | Pages 203-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22397
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Thermal-neutron fission cross sections and fission resonance integrals were measured for 249Cf and five isotopes of curium with both dual fission chambers and plastic fission track recorders. Measurements were made in the thermal column and core of the SP research reactor. Cross sections were determined through direct comparison with the appropriate 235U fission cross sections, i.e., (effective) = 561.5 b and Iƒ = 268 b. For the resonance integral measurements, the low-energy cutoff has been adjusted to 0.625 eV. The measured cross sections are:
