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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
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 191-196
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27144
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A general systematic method to reduce multiregion problems in plane geometry to regular integral equations for the coefficients of singular-eigenfunction expansions is proposed. The method is based on the half-range orthogonality relations of the eigenfunctions and is applicable in two-groups as well as one-group theory. The method is used to solve two problems in one-group theory for isotropic scattering: the Milne problem for a half-space bounded by a slab of dissimilar medium and a problem of neutron transmission through two slabs. Numerical results are reported for several sets of parameters.