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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.
D. E. Bartine, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., F. R. Mynatt, W. W. Engle, Jr., J. Barish
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 48 | Number 2 | June 1972 | Pages 159-178
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22468
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The one-dimensional discrete ordinates code ANISN has been adapted to simulate the transport of low-energy (on the order of a few MeV) electrons. Two different calculational techniques have been utilized for the treatment of electron-electron collisions that result in a small energy transfer. One method treats such collisions by a continuous slowing down approximation, while the other method treats these collisions by the use of a very approximate cross section. Calculated results obtained with ANISN are compared with experimental data for the transmitted energy and angular distributions for 1-, 2.5-, 4-, and 8-MeV electrons normally incident on aluminum slabs of various thicknesses and for 1-MeV electrons normally incident on a gold slab. The calculated and experimental results are in reasonably good agreement for the aluminum slabs but are in poor agreement for the gold slab. Calculated results obtained with ANISN are also compared with calculated results obtained with Monte Carlo methods.