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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.
Y. Gur, S. Yiftah
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 2 | February 1975 | Pages 202-210
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26660
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Basic nuclear data libraries, such as ENDF/B-III, are used today for the generation of multigroup cross-section sets. Since the multigroup sets are determined by calculating the weighted averages of the cross-section curves, knowledge of the weighting function within each group is required. In principle, this function is not only dependent on the specific reactor, but is also a function of position in the reactor. With existing codes and methods the weighting function in the Bondarenko-type library is not iterated, since each time the weighting function is changed, a code that handles the basic data library and consumes much computer time must be run.