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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.
F.Malvagi, G. C. Pomraning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 111 | Number 3 | July 1992 | Pages 215-228
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23936
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Several models describing neutral particle transport through a binary stochastic background mixture are numerically compared. The test problem is one-group, time-independent transport with isotropic scattering in a source-free rod. The mixing statistics of the rod are taken as homogeneous and Markovian. Ensemble-averaged reflection and transmission probabilities as predicted by seven approximate models are compared with exact benchmark results that are available in the literature. Scalar flux plots that compare these seven models at interior rod locations are also given.