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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.
Herbert Goldstein, Jeremiah Certaine
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 1 | May 1961 | Pages 16-23
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25924
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The moments method has been used to calculate the flux age at 1.44 ev in D2O and D2O-H2O mixtures of neutrons from various point isotropic sources. For the neutrons from a D-D source averaged overall solid angle and operating at a deuteron energy of 200 kev, the age in 99.8% D2O was computed to be 118.6 ± 1.2 cm2, in good agreement with the experimental value of Spiegel and Richardson. The rate of change of age for this source with very small admixtures of H2O was found to be —4.5% per 1% H2O, which agrees with the results of experiment and other calculations. Flux ages to 1.44 ev were also calculated for seven monoenergetic point sources from 2.00 to 2.98 Mev in energy. The approximate linearity of these ages with source energy is used to show that uncertainties in the angular distribution of the D-D source neutrons have a negligible effect on the averaged age. It is also shown that the 2.4 Mev antiresonance in oxygen is manifested in the age in D2O only as a correction to the first flight term.