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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.
C. R. Gould, J. R. Boyce
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 477-481
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26909
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Many reactions involving 6Li are of interest in studies of the performance of charged particle fusion reactor systems. We report measurements of the absolute cross sections for the 6Li(3He, p)8Be reaction from 3 to 6 Me V and include the first estimates of the absolute magnitude of the three-body continuum cross section 6Li(3He, p)2α. The cross sections below 1 MeV are calculated from an s-wave Gamow extrapolation and are used to extract the Maxwell-averaged reaction rate for the 6Li(3He, p)8Be reaction leading to the ground and first excited states of 8Be.
