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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. M. Meier, W. B. Amian, C. A. Goulding, G. L. Morgan, C. E. Moss
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 3 | March 1992 | Pages 299-301
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23902
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Absolute neutron yields from stopping-length targets at angles of 7.5, 30, 60, and 150 deg for the 256-MeV proton bombardment of elemental beryllium, carbon, aluminum, and iron are measured. Time-of-flight techniques are used to identify and discriminate against backgrounds and to determine the neutron energy spectrum. Comparison of the experimental data with intranuclear-cascade evaporation-model calculations using the HETC code showed good agreement, indicating that transport probably dominates production effects in the calculations.