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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.
A. M. Melandri, F. Premuda, G. P. Prelati
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 2 | October 1974 | Pages 225-233
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A28209
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Calculations of neutron escape probability from a homogeneous isotropically scattering slab of finite optical thickness are reported as obtained by solving exactly the stationary linear integral transport equation for the total flux of monoenergetic neutrons. This is done for both critical and subcritical configurations of the slab under examination, with both constant and variable sources being referred to in the latter configuration. Due to the transport approach here used, the numerical results for the escape probability cover the full range of variation of the mean number of scattered neutrons per collision, cs, i.e., 0 ≤ cs ≤ 1, whereas the half-thickness of the slab considered ranges from 5 or 10 mean-free-paths down to values as small as 10-4 mean-free-paths.