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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.
D. M. Drake, E. D. Arthur, M. G. Silbert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 49-64
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27125
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Cross sections for the production of gamma rays by bombardment with 14.2-MeV neutrons were measured for 20 samples ranging from beryllium to plutonium. Differential cross sections are given as a function of gamma-ray energy over the region from 0.2 to 9.0 MeV for angles between the incident neutrons and emitted photons of 90 to 130 deg. For some of the light elements, cross sections are also presented for individual gamma rays. Pulsed-beam neutron time-of-flight techniques were employed to reduce background effects in the large NaI(Tl) gamma-ray spectrometer.