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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.
C. Wagemans, P. Van Uffelen, A. Deruytter, R. Barthélémy, J. Van Gils
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 115 | Number 2 | October 1993 | Pages 173-176
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A28527
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Measurements have been performed at the Geel Linear Accelerator from 0.01 eV up to 1000 eV in order to investigate the normalization of 239Pu fission cross-section measurements. Two different experiments were performed using surface barrier detectors and a double ionization chamber, respectively. In both cases, the 10B(n,α) reaction was used as a flux monitor. The results indicate that the Weston and Todd data should be renormalized by ∼3%, resulting in a satisfactory agreement with ENDF/B-VI.