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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.
Nicholas H. Kuehn III, Raymond L. Murray
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 50 | Number 2 | February 1973 | Pages 164-169
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23240
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A development in convenient matrix representation is given for the first four moments of the neutron scattering kernel K(ν,ν’), for a monatomic Maxwellian gas with arbitrary dependence of the scattering cross section on relative speed. The availability of explicit forms for (x,x’), components of the moments in terms of dimensionless speeds, forn = 0, I, 2, and 3, as single-integral expressions facilitates the spherical harmonics solution of neutron thermalization problems through the P3-approxima-tion.