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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.
R. C. Lloyd, E. D. Clayton, C. R. Richey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 4 | Number 5 | November 1958 | Pages 690-697
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25556
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The graphite diffusion length was measured as a function of temperature in a 101-inch cube of graphite. A water-cooled BF3 counter was used as the neutron flux detector, with additional measurements being made with gold and indium foils. The steady state neutron flux was furnished by means of four -gram, Ra-Be neutron sources. Measurements were taken over a range of temperature from 22°C to 600°C at intervals of about 50°C. The variation of diffusion length with temperature change is in good agreement with the calculated variation assuming a 1/υ cross section for graphite and a constant transport mean free path.