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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.
Kazuo Shin, Kagetomo Miyahara, Eiji Tanabe, Yoshitomo Uwamino
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 120 | Number 1 | May 1995 | Pages 40-54
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24104
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Measurements of the double-differential thick-target neutron yield are made for 75- and 120-MeV 12C5+, 153-MeV 16O5+, and 40-MeV alpha particles bombarding carbon, aluminum, copper, and lead targets. The measured data are parameterized by using the two-component moving source model. The systematic variation of the equilibrium neutron (EN) yield with incident ions and targets is analyzed by using the thus-obtained moving source parameters, and a simple expression is proposed to describe the systematics in the EN yield. The systematic change in the nonequilibrium neutron (NEN) yield was formulated to a simple expression by using the local hot spot model. The proposed expression reproduced well the measured EN and NEN yields.
