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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 1 | January 1962 | Pages 63-67
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A25371
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The total neutron cross section of Sm152 has been measured in the energy range from 6.84 to 9.18 ev with the BNL crystal spectrometer using the Be (1231) crystal planes as a monochromator. The resonance at 8.036 ev was fitted to a Breit-Wigner single-level formula by the method of shape analysis. Since the target nucleus is even-even, I = 0, and hence the statistical weight factor g = 1. Consequently all Breit-Wigner parameters can be determined from the total cross section measurements alone. The resonance parameters obtained from the analysis are: E0 = 8.036 ± 0.010 ev, σ0 = 210,000 ± 2000 barns, Γ = 0.201 ± 0.008 ev, Γγ = 0.071 ± 0.010 ev, and Γn = 0.130 ± 0.005 ev.