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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. Debertin, U. Schötzig, K. F. Walz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 3 | November 1977 | Pages 784-786
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27108
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Gamma rays from the fission product nuclides 140Ba and 140La are frequently used for monitoring fission rates in neutron activation detectors consisting of fissionable materials. Systematic errors that can occur when the 1596-keV line of 140La is taken as the monitor line can be avoided by using the 537-keV line of 140Ba. The gamma-ray emission probabilities per decay of 140Ba and 140La were redetermined for the more abundant lines with a relative uncertainty of about ±1% at the 68% confidence level.
