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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. A. de Juren, M. Reier, R. W. Stooksberry
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 11 | Number 2 | October 1961 | Pages 179-191
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A28063
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The distribution in water of indium resonance neutrons from a 1.4 Mev D-D source has been measured in planes perpendicular to the deuteron beam up to 28 cm in the forward direction from the source. The values of the integrated activities over the planes (including the extrapolated region beyond the range of measurements in each plane) are presented. In addition, a method is described for inferring an age from a D-D source by finding an angle where the distribution is equivalent to that from an isotropic and monoenergetic source. The age of indium resonance neutrons obtained for an equivalent source at 4.3 Mev is 54.4 ± 1.4 cm2. Comparison is made with calculated values of the age.