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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.
Susumu Minato
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 51 | Number 1 | May 1973 | Pages 32-40
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23255
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Energy spectra resulting from the scattering of gamma rays under various conditions were calculated by a Monte Carlo method. As a result of systematic studies on the low energy components of the spectra, it was found that they were not affected very much by source energy or scatterer geometry but were affected by the atomic number of the scatterer. These properties could be explained successfully by a relatively simple theory including the continuous slowing down approximation. A formula expressing the relationship between the position of the peak appearing in the low energy region of the spectrum and the atomic number of the scatterer was derived from the above calculations and the theory.