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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.
K. Clausen, U. Roose, P. Schneider-Kühnle, F. W. Buchholz, L. Schänzler, S. Stüker, G. Tumbrägel, M. Weinert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 4 | August 1977 | Pages 493-500
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27063
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To provide data for testing nitrogen and oxygen cross-section sets, transport of neutrons from a 252Cf source was investigated in a large volume of liquid air. Neutron energy spectra and doses were measured at distances between 30 and 230 cm from the source. Proton recoil proportional counters and NE-213 scintillation detectors were used to obtain energy spectra from 40 keV up to 10 MeV. Different computer programs were employed to unfold the pulse-height spectra. Dose measurements were made using a tissue equivalent ionization chamber and a GM counter. The results are compared with theoretical transport calculations performed with the ANISN code. In general, there is good agreement between the calculations and measurements up to the largest distances.