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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.
L. M. Howe, R. E. Jervis, T. A. Eastwood
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 2 | February 1962 | Pages 185-189
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-2-185
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Aluminum-gold alloy wire of very uniform cross section and composition has been made for the preparation of neutron flux monitors. Because the wire is uniform, a device to cut it into pieces of equal length can be used for the rapid preparation of flux monitors and the need to weigh individual monitors can thus be avoided. Homogeneity of composition was achieved mainly by rolling and annealing, and the effectiveness of each step was assessed by neutron-activation analysis. The gold content of the final product (wire 0.018 in. diameter) was also determined by activation analysis and was found to be 0.0985 ± 0.0020 atom %. Thermal-neutron self-shielding in this wire is negligible and cadmium ratio experiments show that resonance-neutron self-shielding amounts to about 2.5%.