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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.
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Using the NJOY nuclear data processing system, three multigroup MATXS-formatted nuclear data libraries were generated based on the European datafiles JEF-1 and EFF-1, After processing with TRAMIX, TRANSX, or TRANSX-CTR, these libraries can be read into most transport and diffusion codes. For the neutron analysis of gas-cooled or water-moderated thermal reactor systems (including high converter pressurized water reactors), a 70-group WIMS-BOXER structured library was generated. A general-purpose fine-group library in 308 groups is provided for thermal as well as for fast reactor systems. A coupled 175 neutron/42 photon-group library in VITAMIN-J structure was created for the analysis of shielding problems and fusion blanket design. The three MATXS files can be requested from the Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank.