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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.
D. M. Barton, B. C. Diven, G. E. Hansen, G. A. Jarvis, P. G. Koontz, R. K. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 369-382
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26898
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The ratio of the fission cross section of 235U to the scattering cross section of 1H has been measured in the 1- to 6-MeV range using monoenergetic neutrons from a pulsed 3H(p, n)3He source. In this measurement, solid-state detectors determined fission fragment and recoil proton emissions from back-to-back U(99.7%) and polyethylene disks. Timing permitted discrimination against room-scattered neutron backgrounds. Absolute values for 235U(n, f) are obtained using the Hopkins-Breit evaluation of the hydrogen-scattering cross section.
