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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.
O. B. Evdokimov, A. P. Yalovets
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 1 | September 1974 | Pages 67-75
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23967
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A new calculation method of electron transport in a medium with boundaries has been developed. The method is based on the solution of the kinetic equation, written for the segments model in the continuous slowing down approximation. The distribution function is represented in the Fourier-Legendre expansion and the equation has been reduced to a system of recursive relations, which permit calculation of the expansion coefficients. The boundaries of the medium have been considered by introduction of a nonscattering medium into the space outside the slab which led to the dependence of the angular distribution function on the coordinate., The calculational results for the plane case are presented and comparisons of them with experimental data and with the calculations of other authors show good agreement.