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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.
Hans Häggblom, Åke Ahlin, Takashi Nakamura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 4 | April 1975 | Pages 411-422
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26686
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A theory is described for solving the integral neutron transport equation by the transmission probability method. Detailed attention is given to the problem in rectangular x-y geometry. Within a mesh the neutron flux is assumed to be linearly dependent on the x and y coordinates. The angular dependence is given by a double P1 approximation. At the mesh surfaces a term is considered that allows for an asymmetric flux distribution relative to the surface normal. The inner source is obtained from the equilibrium equation. Based on this method, the code COXY has been developed and applied to one- and two-dimensional rectangular cell calculations. The calculated results show good agreement with those of SN and collision probability codes.