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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.
Nobuhiro Yamamuro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 109 | Number 2 | October 1991 | Pages 128-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A28512
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A model calculation of neutron activation cross sections is carried out with SINCROS-II for all stable isotopes of molybdenum. Results of the calculation are compared with experimental data, which were measured over the wide range from threshold to 20 MeV. The general agreement between the calculated and experimental cross sections is good, but some cross sections remain in significant disagreement. The calculational method is applicable to the estimation of production cross sections for the long-lived radioactive nuclides.