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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.
A. Hébert , G. Marleau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 3 | July 1991 | Pages 230-239
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-57
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The self-shielding treatment of resonant isotopes is currently performed in most lattice codes using the Stamm’ler method on simplified one-dimensional geometries. A generalization of this procedure is proposed for self-shielding calculations over the arbitrary two- and three-dimensional geometries typical of most advanced reactor designs. Numerical results are presented for a simple two-region cylindrical cell and for a small pressurized water reactor assembly exhibiting true two-dimensional behavior. The absorption rates obtained after self-shielding are compared with exact values obtained using an elastic slowing-down calculation where each resonance is modeled individually in the resolved energy domain. It is shown that the generalized Stamm’ler method can be applied without loss of accuracy to multidimensional domains.