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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.
C. B. Bigham, S. A. Kushneriuk, P. R. Tunnicliffe
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 3 | July 1963 | Pages 299-314
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26533
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Fission cross section ratios of U233, U235, and Pu239 and capture rates in Mn55 and In115 have been measured in an NRX type uranium metal rod irradiated in a heavy water moderated reactor. The results have been compared to the values obtained using a model designed for NRX burnup calculations. Agreement was obtained using an “incurrent” spectrum composed of a Maxwellian thermal component and an epithermal component of the form obtained from neutron spectrometer measurements. Changes in spectrum caused by the light water coolant were also studied.
