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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.
G. W. Hinman, G. F. Kuncir, J. B. Sampson, G. B. West
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 2 | June 1963 | Pages 202-207
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26500
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A method for determining Doppler broadening which is rigorous for a Maxwellian gas of resonance absorber atoms has been reduced to computation. Doppler broadened absorption cross sections for low-lying resonances of Er167 and Xe135 have been computed both by this more accurate method and by the ψ-function approximation which is in general use. The more accurate method was found to give a correction, compared with the ψ-function method, which was several percent in the case of Xe135 and was less than 1 % for Er167. The time required for the more accurate computation was found to be short enough to be practical for those special applications wehere it is of interest.