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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.
Robin Klein Meulekamp, Steven C. van der Marck
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 152 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 142-148
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-107
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New Monte Carlo estimators of the effective delayed neutron fraction eff are presented in this paper. By looking at the physical interpretation of the adjoint function, one can incorporate its effect on the delayed neutron fraction without explicitly calculating the adjoint function itself. We have implemented these estimators into MCNP. In a standard keff calculation, the code now reports a eff value. The method does not slow down the code by more than 0.5%. We propose an extensive experimental benchmark set for eff, which we use to test our method and two known approximate methods. Our method reproduces all experimental values.