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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.
J. W. Meadows
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 3 | November 1972 | Pages 310-316
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22544
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Measurements of the 238U:235U fission cross section ratio were carried out in the 2 to 3 MeV region using two different methods to determine the relative masses. The energy dependence of the ratio was measured from 1 to 5 MeV and normalized to the results at 2.5 MeV. The measured value of the ratio at 2.5 MeV is 0.432 ± 0.004.
