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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.
Thomas J. Seed, Robert W. Albrecht
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 346-356
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26896
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The results obtained from the solution of the expansion coefficient equations obtained in the preceding paper for the Walsh approximation are given for both one and two dimensions. Since the one-dimensional analysis was performed mainly to lay a foundation for the two-dimensional analysis, only a brief summary of the one-dimensional results is given. The two-dimensional analysis was performed on a problem type that accentuates ray effects. Solutions obtained with various Walsh and Gauss-Walsh quadrature sets are shown; these solutions provide substantial mitigation of the ray effect, yet retain a reasonable degree of accuracy in the calculation of volumetric reaction rates.