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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.
Yuji Ishiguro, José Rubens Maiorino
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 4 | August 1977 | Pages 507-509
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27066
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The singular-eigenfunction-expansion method and the principle of invariance are combined to reduce the two-half-space Milne problem to a regular computational form in the two-group isotropic scattering model. The method used here consists in considering a problem of two contiguous half-spaces with surface sources at the interface. The problem is equivalent to the Milne problem in the sense that the expansion coefficients are to be determined from the same equation. The emergent distributions are obtained from coupled regular integral equations. The expansion coefficients can then be obtained using the halfrange orthogonality relation of the eigenfunctions. Numerical results are reported for light-water media.