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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.
Rohan Teelock-Gaya, Valeria Raffuzzi, Eugene Shwageraus, Lee Morgan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 1 | March 2026 | Pages S436-S455
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2456414
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The XGBoost machine learning algorithm for regression was used to predict (n,2n) microscopic cross sections by training models on physical parameters describing various target nuclei and their corresponding evaluated (n,2n) cross sections sourced from ENDF/B-VIII. Research was concentrated on nuclides with nucleon numbers 30 A 208. Machine learning predictions were compared to library evaluations from ENDF/B-VIII, JENDL-5, JEFF-3.3, CENDL-3.2, and TENDL-2021. Predictions for many nuclides were found to be in agreement with existing evaluated cross sections, with 0.95, with respect to at least one library evaluation found for 73.5 ± 1.0% of nuclides in ENDF/B-VIII. Predictions were subsequently made on a wide range of exotic nuclides and compared to evaluations from the TENDL-2021 and JENDL-5 libraries.