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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.
Shunsuke Uchida, Masao Kitamura, Shunichi Miyasaka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 155-159
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27134
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Experiments were undertaken to determine the distribution of neutron flux on the core support grid plate of liquid-metal fast breeder reactors by using a semimockup of the grid-plate shield consisting of carbon-steel and aluminum slabs. The experiments were calculated with a conventional calculational procedure containing the TRD-3 two-dimensional removal diffusion code. It was demonstrated that the calculated radial distribution of the fast neutron reaction rates of 115In(n,n′)115mIn agreed with the measured values within a factor of 2.
