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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.
Eduardo A. Villarino, Rudi J. J. Stamm’ler, Aldo A. Ferri, Juan J. Casal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 1 | September 1992 | Pages 16-31
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE112-16
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In HELIOS, a two-dimensional program for fuel assembly calculations, the geometric system can be partitioned into heterogeneous space elements. The transport of neutrons and gammas is treated by the CCCP method: current coupling (CC) of the space elements, which are internally treated by collision probabilities (CPs). The region-to-region, region-to-surface, surface-to-region, and surface-to-surface probabilities are evaluated. They are numerically integrated according to Carlvik’s method. It is illustrated that elaborate ray tracing and careful normalization prevent the instabilities that the CPs would otherwise suffer. The angular dependence of the interface currents introduces angular dependence into the last three of these probabilities. A reciprocity relation between region-to-surface and surface-to-region probabilities is derived for the individual angular sectors at the surfaces. Also, a new integral function is introduced, the partial Bickley function. An efficient evaluation method for both normal and partial Bickley functions is presented that reduces the computational time for the CPs by ∼20%.