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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.
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The thermal cross sections and the resonance integrals have been measured for the activation of Pm147 to both Pm148 isomers. The thermal activation cross sections are: 124 ± 13 barns to 5.39-day Pm148 and 111 ± 11 barns to 40.6-day Pm148m. The resonance integrals are: 1700 ± 250 barns to 5.39-day Pm148 and 1520 ± 230 barns to 40.6-day Pm148m. Approximate cross sections have been obtained for neutron capture by both Pm148 isomers. The pile cross section of 40.6-day Pm148m is 29,000 ± 5000 barns and is due mainly to thermal neutron capture. The pile cross section of 5.39-day Pm148 is 3,000 ± 2,000 barns and is due mainly to resonance neutron capture.
