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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. Eggler, C. M. Huddleston, V. E. Krohn, G. R. Ringo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 5 | October 1956 | Pages 391-408
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A28777
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The neutron spectra at two positions in the core and two positions in the inner blanket of the Experimental Breeder Reactor in Idaho have been measured by means of beams extracted from these positions. The energy range covered was from 75 kev to 4 Mev. A cloud chamber was used for the measurement from 75 kev to 1 Mev and recoil-proton tracks in nuclear plates for that from 0.8 to 4 Mev. Reaction rate ratios measured inside the reactor agree well with those calculated from known cross sections and the spectra found in the beams.