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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. D. M. Garcia
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 12 | December 2024 | Pages 2274-2290
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2328931
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We examine in this work one of the exact solutions of the conservative transport equation for isotropic scattering in spherical geometry, specifically the solution that is singular at the origin and vanishes at infinity. Two representations are known for that solution: one expressed as an infinite divergent series that is derived from the spherical harmonics method and another given by an integral that results from the technique of integration along the particle path and is confirmed here by the method of characteristics. We establish a connection between these representations by showing that the Borel sum of the first reproduces the latter. We also examine computational aspects of the solution expressed in various forms and discuss some standing issues related to it.