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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.
Morton R. Fleishman, Harry Soodak
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 3 | March 1960 | Pages 217-227
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25705
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The Spinrad three-group theory of the fast effect is formulated. Recipes are presented for determining the necessary cross sections directly from fundamental data and three-group cross sections for various materials are tabulated. A comparison is made between the three-group theory and one-group theory with respect to the calculation of R, the ratio of fast-to-thermal fissions, and it is found that the three-group theory appears to give better agreement with experiments. The three-group values of Є — 1 are about 20% higher than those calculated from the one-group formula.
