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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.
George I. Bell, W. A. Anderson, D. Galbraith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 1 | May 1963 | Pages 118-123
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-2
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A numerical program is described for calculating the probability distribution of neutrons or delayed neutron precursors in a multiplying assembly. The program obtains the probability distribution generating function, from which the distribution itself is found by inversion of a Laplace transform. Six groups of delayed neutrons may be used. The prompt neutron lifetime is arbitrary and neutron source and reactivity may be functions of time. The existence of an asymptotic probability distribution at late times is proved for constant reactivity. Six group results are shown to be in good agreement with experimental data from Godiva.