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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.
P. Kafalas, M. Levenson, C. M. Stevens
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 5 | September 1957 | Pages 657-663
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25432
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The variation of alpha, the ratio σc/σf, has been determined for U235 and Pu239 as a function of position in EBR. Samples of U235 and Pu239 were exposed in the core, inner blanket, and outer blanket; the samples were analyzed radiochemically to determine the fraction fissioned and mass spectrometrically to determine the fraction which had undergone the capture process. The vertical and horizontal patterns of capture and fission probability have been determined. The variation of η in the reactor has been plotted, assuming that remains constant.
