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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.
Ely M. Gelbard, Yen-Wan H. Liu, Laura Olvey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 101 | Number 2 | February 1989 | Pages 166-178
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23605
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Embedded in multidimensional nodal transport computations is the solution of transverse-integrated one-dimensional transport equations. Since, in these embedded one-dimensional computations, fluxes on boundaries are double P1 (DP1), it is generally assumed that the one-dimensional solutions, in the small-mesh limit, approach DP1 solutions. It is shown that this is not necessarily true. Small-mesh limits of nodal equations are derived, and it is shown that these are substantially worse than the DP1 equations under certain circumstances. Alternative nodal equations (which do have a DP1 small-mesh limit) are proposed.