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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. G. Cochran, D. E. Feltz, J. D. Randall, J. V. Walker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 2 | October 1964 | Pages 138-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A28927
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A useful and inexpensive assembly for thermal-neutron-flux standardization is described. This assembly consists of a water filled tank containing three Pu-Be neutron sources, each located at an apex of an equilateral triangle with sides of 5.6 inches and appropriately centered in the tank. The thermal flux is spatially invariant and isotropic over a rather large region in the test section and thus reduces the effects of positioning errors of foils and detectors being calibrated. Methods for standardizing such an assembly are discussed.