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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.
R. P. Gardner, M. Mickael, K. Verghese
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 51-63
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23525
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A new direction biasing approach to a target point and to finite detectors for Monte Carlo simulation is developed, presented, and tested. It properly accounts for the weight adjustments that must be made for the combined choice of a particular scattering (polar) and rotational (azimuthal) angle to obtain a given biasing angle about either a target point or a finite detector. Sample Monte Carlo simulations for a neutron transport problem with isotropic center-of-mass scattering and a gamma-ray transport problem with Klein-Nishina scattering have been done by both the analog and new direction biasing methods. The results indicate that the direction biasing approach is valid and will be very efficient for deep-penetration problems of these two types.