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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.
R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., T. A. Gabriel, J. Barish, F. S. Alsmiller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 2 | October 1981 | Pages 162-166
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A27404
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A model that includes fission for predicting particle production spectra from medium-energy nucleon and pion collisions with uranium nuclei has been incorporated into the nucleon-meson transport code HETC. A variety of calculated results obtained with this revised code for protons incident on uranium targets have been obtained and are compared with experimental data and with the calculations of other investigators. For incident proton energies 1 GeV, the calculated results are in good agreement with several, but not all, of the available experiments.