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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.
M. Hayashi, T. Nishigori, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., R. A. Lillie
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 109 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 391-400
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23864
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Calculational studies are conducted of neutron and gamma-ray transport in the beam tubes of a proposed high-flux reactor for the Advanced Neutron Source. To avoid excessively long computing times, the calculations were carried out by coupling two, two-dimensional discrete ordinates calculations. The calculational methodology used is briefly described. Calculated results are presented of the thermal neutron, nonthermal neutron, and gamma-ray fluxes in a radial and a tangential beam tube. Both scalar and angular fluxes in and at the exit of the beam tubes are given. When compared with the radial beam tube, the tangential beam tube shows a lower flux of high-energy neutrons and a much lower flux of gamma rays. The spectral characteristics of the particle fluxes at the exits of the beam tubes are similar to those at the entrances.