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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.
James Grundl, Arthur Usner
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 6 | December 1960 | Pages 598-607
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25847
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The responses of the activation detectors P(n, p), Al(n, p), Fe(n, p), Al(n, α), and Cu(n, 2n) to the neutron spectra at the center of the bare U235 and Pu239 critical assemblies, Godiva and Jezebel, are the basis of a precision comparison of these two spectra above 2 Me v. Results, interpreted in terms of the spectral function E1/2e–βE, show that the average energy of this component of the spectrum in Godiva is 4.7 ± 0.8% lower than in Jezebel. From some preliminary measurements a close resemblance to the corresponding fission neutron spectra is indicated in this energy region. Results of photoplate measurements in the leakage spectra of both assemblies are considered and briefly analyzed. A discussion and determination of effective thresholds is appended.