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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. D. Petrie, M. L. Storm, P. F. Zweifel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 6 | November 1957 | Pages 728-744
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A35488
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The calculation of averaged thermal diffusion coefficients and absorption cross sections for hydrogenous assemblies is discussed, and numerical results are presented. Comparison is made with available experimental information. The averages are taken over Wigner-Wilkins spectra, which assume moderation by a perfect gas of hydrogen atoms in the presence of a 1/v absorber. The Radkowsky prescription has been used to obtain transport cross sections for various compounds containing hydrogen. Power series expansions are presented which simplify the calculation of average diffusion coefficients for mixtures.