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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.
U. N. Singh, R. C. Block, Y. Nakagome
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 67 | Number 1 | July 1978 | Pages 54-60
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27236
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Neutron capture and transmission measurements were made on a sample of fission product palladium. The level parameters were obtained for 34 107Pd resonances below 700 eV. The observed average level spacing was 〈D〉 = (10.7 ± 1.5) eV, and the s-wave neutron strength function was determined to be 104 S0 = . The capture width Γγ for the 6.834-eV 107Pd resonance was deduced to be (125 ± 15) meV. Assuming that all 107Pd resonances have the same radiation width as the 6.834-eV resonance, the resonance capture integral for all 34 resonances is 87 b.
