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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.
Richard Madey and Harold Shulman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 3 | June 1967 | Pages 353-358
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A28949
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A sevenfold integral expression is derived for the absorbed dose rate from the uncollided flux of gamma rays at the center of a spherical shell shield bombarded by an omnidirectional flux spectrum of protons. The general formulation is reduced to a fourfold integral on the basis of simplifying assumptions. This simpler formulation assumes that the gamma rays are produced isotropically by an isotropic proton flux, that protons penetrating the shell are not deflected from their original direction of incidence, that the spectrum and yield of photons are independent of proton bombarding energy, and that both the incident proton spectrum and the range-energy relation for protons in matter have power-law representations. A sixfold intergral expression is derived for the absorbed dose rate from the once-collided flux of gamma rays at the center of a spherical shell shield bombarded by an isotropic flux spectrum of protons. The once-collided differential (in energy) flux of photons at the shell center is given by a fivefold integral expression.