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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 200 | Number 4 | April 2026 | Pages 753-765
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2471695
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The post-processed spherical harmonics () method is used to solve four monoenergetic test problems in spherical geometry that include a void region in their definition. Two of them are two-region problems and the remaining ones are three-region problems. It is shown how the void region can be excluded from the problem and how a solution can be obtained for it once the reduced problem is solved. Numerical results with six significant digits of accuracy for the scalar flux, the current, and the angular flux are provided for all of the problems. A comparison with tabulated scalar flux results obtained by other authors for one of the problems is carried out and serves to illustrate the convergence difficulties of transport methods based on spatial discretization when used in voids.