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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.
Gilbert Epstein, James Biffer, Martin Becker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 3 | July 1976 | Pages 288-301
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26885
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Continuous neutron slowing down theory, as generalized to incorporate inelastic scattering, has been combined with integral transport theory by use of the separable kernel analogy. The result is a matrix form of continuous slowing down theory where the matrices involved are direct generalizations of the scalar quantities encountered in continuous slowing down theory. The approach has been applied to the calculation of space-dependent spectra in uranium and iron single-region problems and in two-region problems involving uranium and iron. In general, very good agreement with more precise calculations is obtained.