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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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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 4 | August 1963 | Pages 363-368
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26546
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Some problems of the theoretical interpretation of pulsed neutron experiments are investigated in this paper, on the basis of the energy dependent Boltzmann equation. The relation of the infinite medium theory to the finite medium experiments is discussed in details. We perform a calculation in P1L1 approximation in order to determine the form of neutron flux and the extrapolation length. It is demonstrated that the existence of an asymptotic region is not required to apply the infinite medium theory to the finite medium experiments.
