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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.
W. G. Cross, H. Ing
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 58 | Number 4 | December 1975 | Pages 377-386
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26794
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Empirical expressions are given for the excitation functions of a number of (n, n'), (n, p), and (n, f) reactions useful in the dosimetry of fast neutrons. For fission cross sections, the expressions are fitted to existing evaluations while for activation cross sections, they are fitted to recent experimental data. Average cross sections, derived from these expressions, for various fission neutron spectra are compared with measured values.