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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.
Gilbert Epstein, Martin Becker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 1 | May 1975 | Pages 81-84
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A40346
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One limitation of conventional neutron age theory is that the first collision made by a particle when emitted by a source occurs right at the source. If a first-collision source is used explicitly, one no longer obtains an analytical solution, a principal advantage of age theory. In this Note, an approximate form that permits analytical solution is used for the distribution of first collisions in plane geometry. Substantial improvement over age theory results.