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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. Roy, A. Hébert, G. Marleau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 101 | Number 3 | March 1989 | Pages 217-225
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE101-217
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A new ray-tracing method for the calculation of collision probabilities within arbitrary three-dimensional geometries has been developed. This method is used to discretize the neutron transport equation for heterogeneous rectangular cells containing zones of mixed cylindrical and rectangular geometry. For multicell applications, the interface current (IC) method provides the coupling between cells. The solution to the IC equations over multicell domains consisting of rectangular three-dimensional cells is improved by using an alternate direction implicit iteration scheme with variational acceleration. Results include comparisons of this technique with SHETAN for simple geometries and the analysis of a three-dimensional extension of a two-dimensional 15 × 15 pressurized water reactor benchmark problem.