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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.
Shin-ichi Ito
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 4 | December 1972 | Pages 458-467
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22565
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A new method is presented for investigating the behavior of pulsed fast neutrons in non-multiplying semi-infinite systems. The time- and space-dependent multigroup P1 equation (of the telegrapher’s equation type) was analytically solved by the use of the Laplace transform. Starting from the space dependent first time moments on the decaying group-wise neutron fluxes, the propagation parameters are newly defined as the fundamental parameters to describe the characteristics of the fast neutron moderation in the medium. These parameters include the space independent mean life time and the inverse of the effective velocity of neutron propagation. The proposed method will be useful in investigating the space dependent neutron slowing down and propagation phenomena in assemblies.