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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.
O. D. Simpson, F. B. Simpson, J. A. Harvey, G. G. Slaughter, R. W. Benjamin, C. E. Ahlfeld
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 3 | November 1974 | Pages 273-279
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23454
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Neutron transmission measurements have been made on two high-purity samples of 243Am having inverse thicknesses of 1288.2 and 279.3 b/atom, respectively. Data were collected from 0.5 to 1000 eV using the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator. High resolution data were taken using 10- and 30-nsec bursts of 140-MeV electrons, 10-nsec channel widths, and a flight path of 18.576 m. An average value of Ty of 39 ± 1 meV was determined from shape analysis of 24 resonances below 18 eV. Single-level Breit-Wigner resonance parameters were obtained from area analysis up to 250 eV. The average level spacing between resonances was found to be 0.68 ± 0.06 eV. An s-wave neutron strength function of (0.96 ± 0.10) × 10≈4 was determined from the resonance parameters, The resonance-absorption integral for neutrons with energies above 0.625 eV was determined to be 1810 ± 70 b from the resonance parameters.