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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.
W. L. Dunn, A. M. Yacout, F. O′Foghludha
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 2 | February 1992 | Pages 134-156
Technical Papers | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23883
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Gamma-ray and neutron dose-equivalent buildup factors are calculated for six common shielding materials in a point-source, infinite-slab, point-detector geometry using a decomposition of the solution to the transport problem into single- and multiple-scatter components. A rigorous solution for the single-scatter component is constructed and a Monte Carlo model for the multiple-scatter component is employed. Simplified models are fit to the calculated buildup factors as functions of slab thickness and source-detector separation, and model constants are evaluated for each of several source energies. Single-scatter and total slab buildup factors are presented, both in tabular form and in graphs that also show the fitted models, for six materials. The models are demonstrated for a sample problem.