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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.
Elias P. Gyftopoulos, Luis de Sobrino
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 2 | August 1959 | Pages 135-139
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25643
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The reactivity worth of cylindrical control rods of small cross section inserted in a cylindrical reactor is evaluated by means of a variational method. Both one-group and two-group diffusion theory are used and simple formulae are developed for a single eccentric and a concentric array of control rods. The results obtained are illustrated by means of a numerical example and compared to the results derived from other methods available in the literature.
