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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.
Zhao Chunlei, Xie Zhongsheng, Yin Banghua
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 3 | November 1988 | Pages 260-268
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A29039
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The application of the transmission probability method to the calculation of neutron flux distribution in a two-dimensional light water reactor assembly is described. The interior flux within a mesh is assumed to be linearly dependent on X and Y coordinates. At the mesh surfaces the linear space distribution and the P1 approximation for the anisotropic angular distribution are considered. Simple expressions for the expansion coefficients are derived. These expressions are determined by outgoing and incoming currents and are renewed after each iteration. Based on the proposed method, the two-dimensional code TPM2D has been encoded and a series of two-dimensional assembly benchmark problems have been tested. The numerical results are in good agreement with those of Sn, surface flux transport, discrete node transport, and collision probability methods.