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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. L. Macklin, D. M. Drake, J. J. Malanify, E. D. Arthur, P. G. Young
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 82 | Number 2 | October 1982 | Pages 143-150
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A28697
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Neutron capture cross sections have been measured for 169Tm from 3 to 2000 keV at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator 40-m station. The data were analyzed for individual resonance parameters up to 4.2 keV. Average strength functions have been deduced. Compound nucleus calculations, made with deformed optical model parameters, agree with experimental cross sections. Our cross sections for lower neutron energies tend to be somewhat less than those from earlier measurements.