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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.
J. Ligou
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 2 | May 1978 | Pages 229-234
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27203
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The expression for the source importance factor is derived in the frame of the adiabatic approximation. This factor plays an important role in the point kinetic equations when extraneous sources are present. It is shown how to get a very accurate value using standard codes that solve the steady-state transport (or diffusion) equation, but not the adjoint problem. Several numerical examples are discussed.