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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.
Michael J. Gaeta, Bahram Nassersharif
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 113 | Number 1 | January 1993 | Pages 56-69
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A23993
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The development of a parallel stochastic cellular automata model for neutron transport is presented. The model is derived from neutron physics and is implemented on a 2048 processor singleinstruction multiple-data architecture MasPar computer. Purely absorbing and purely fissioning onedimensional benchmarks are performed against analytical solutions. Favorable results from these two benchmarks motivated the performance of three other test cases. Results for a two-dimensional scattering-absorbing case and a one-dimensional time-dependent case compared fairly well qualitatively with literature results. Also, results from a one-dimensional, two-group case compared somewhat favorably, but the scheme used was deemed not efficient enough without modification.