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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.
Yongchang Wang, Junqian Yuan, Jingkang Yang, Huamin Wang, Yongqing Shui, Zhongliang Ren
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 111 | Number 3 | July 1992 | Pages 314-316
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23944
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Cross sections for the 109Ag(n,2n)108mAg reaction are measured using an activation method relative to cross sections for the 93Nb(n, 2n)92mNb reaction in the 13.64- to 14.80-MeV neutron energy range. Values of 223 ± 7, 233 ± 18, 227 ± 20, 224 ± 18, 232 ± 8, and 236 ±7 mb are obtained, respectively, at neutron energies of 13.64, 13.79, 14.03, 14.33, 14.60, and 14.80 MeV. The neutron energies in these measurements are determined by cross-section ratios for 90Zr(n,2n)89m+gZr and 93Nb(n,2n)92mNb reactions.
