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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.
B. R. Wienke
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 3 | March 1974 | Pages 329-332
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23360
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The Boltzmann equation in an accelerated medium is described and the Legendre moments of the equation, formulated in velocities relative to that medium, are obtained for one-dimensional plane and spherical geometries. The accelerated medium effectively introduces additional velocity-dependent terms into the usual moment equations. The Pn scheme is suggested for the coupled channel equations and a low-order diffusion approximation accounting for the acceleration of the medium proposed.