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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.
Yuuichi Morimoto, Hiromi Maruyama, Kazuya Ishii, Motoo Aoyama
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 4 | December 1989 | Pages 351-358
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23688
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A fuel assembly analysis code, VMONT, in which a multigroup neutron transport calculation is combined with a burnup calculation, has been developed for comprehensive design work use. The neutron transport calculation is performed with a vectorized Monte Carlo method that can realize speeds >10 times faster than those of a scalar Monte Carlo method. The validity of the VMONT code is shown through test calculations against continuous energy Monte Carlo calculations and the PROTEUS tight lattice experiment.
