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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.
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The neutron age to the 1.44-ev resonance in indium has been determined from activation measurements for a D(d, n)He3 neutron source in 99.8% heavy water. Appropriately averaged and corrected indium foil activities yield the value 119.1 ± 1.5 cm2 for the age in an infinite medium. Independent theoretical calculations for exactly this experimental arrangement by Cooper (1), Goldstein and Certaine (2), and for a comparable case by Sullivan (3) all yield values in agreement with this experimental result. It appears, therefore, that there is at present no discrepancy between theory and experiment for the age of 2–3 Mev neutrons in heavy water.