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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.
Zekeriya Altaç, Bernard I. Spinrad
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 471-479
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23771
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A high-order transport approximation, the SKN method, is introduced for solving the integral transport equation. The method relies on approximating the integral transport kernels by a sum of diffusionlike kernels. The integral equation is equivalent to a set of coupled second-order differential equations for which blackbody and reflecting boundary conditions are established. These SKN equations are solved for benchmark problems. The benchmark problems include one- and two-dimensional homogeneous cell configurations. The solutions using SKN are compared with discrete ordinates and other high-order transport theory solutions.