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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.
Melvin Tobias, T. B. Fowler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 4 | April 1962 | Pages 513-518
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26099
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An extremely simple iterative procedure is described for performing group-diffusion calculations in two and three dimensions No proofs have been found to guarantee its convergence, but successful experience with a wide variety of problems, some realistic, others with specially introduced difficulties, shows the method to be rapid and reliable. Three large computer programs have been devised embodying the principle: EQUIPOISE-3, TWENTY GRAND, and WHIRLAWAY. The first two are two-dimensional programs, while the third is three-dimensional. If desired, the programs can be used to compute adjoint fluxes and those integrals necessary for perturbation calculations automatically. Possible further applications of the method are suggested.