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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.
M. V. Mataušek
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 161-164
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27136
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The previously reported work on the spherical harmonics treatment of epithermal-neutron spectra in reactor lattices is further extended and improved. The condensed matrix representation is introduced for the space- and lethargy-dependent vector of the spherical harmonics flux moments. Detailed recurrence relations for the factors resulting from numerical integration of the lethargy transfer integrals, in both the fast and the resonance regions, are provided. For solving systems of interface and boundary condition equations in the space variable, a procedure based on the coefficient matrix partitioning is presented.