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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.
Frank Titus
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 5 | May 1958 | Pages 609-619
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Measurements have been made of the distribution of exposure dose in the neighborhood of a plane boundary separating two media of very different density, steel-wool and steel. A point-isotropic Co60 source was located in the vicinity of the boundary. Control measurements were performed in a homogeneous medium of steel-wool. In this way the effect on gamma-ray propagation of an abrupt density change was established. The main result was a progressive decrease of exposure dose near the density-interface compared with the homogeneous medium situation, as the source-detector distance was increased. There is good agreement between the experimental results and corresponding Monte Carlo calculations.