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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.
Charles A. Bolig, Jr., R. R. Roy
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 3 | November 1976 | Pages 366-369
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26922
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Light charged particles (LCP) and fission elements formed in ternary fission of 252Cf have been investigated. The energy spectra of light particles, alphas, and protons were studied using a ΔE × (E + ΔE) particle-identifying telescope apparatus. A coincidence circuit was used in such a way that the K x rays from the ternary fission fragments were electronically gated by a designated LCP and then stored in a multichannel analyzer. The K x rays were analyzed using a high-resolution lithium-drifted silicon spectrometer, permitting accurate identification of the elements in the charge distribution of fission fragments. Experimental results indicate the influence of the odd-even effect and also of shape deformation of alpha-accompanied ternary fission.