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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. B. Amian, R. C. Byrd, C. A. Goulding, M. M. Meier, G. L. Morgan, C. E. Moss, D. A. Clark
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 1 | September 1992 | Pages 78-86
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23953
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Differential (p,xn) cross sections are measured for 800-MeV protons incident on thin targets of depleted uranium and of natural beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, aluminum, iron, cadmium, tungsten, and lead. Measurements for neutron energies from 0.3 to 800 MeV are made at angles of30, 60, 120, and 150 deg. Time-of-flight techniques are used to determine the neutron energy spectra, and particular effort is made to identify and discriminate against background contributions. Comparisons of the experimental data with calculations using the high-energy transport code (HETC) intranuclear-cascade evaporation model show good agreement for the heaviest elements (tungsten, lead, and uranium), but significant discrepancies exist for the light elements, especially in the evaporation region.