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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.
Bernard I. Spinrad, James S. Sterbentz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 90 | Number 4 | August 1985 | Pages 431-441
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A18491
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The Wigner-Seitz cell problem is treated by integral transport theory as a superposition of black boundary problems using the volume source and sources equivalent to the two lowest order angular components of the reentrant flux. This treatment sheds light on the convergence properties of iterative integral transport solution methods. The outgoing flux is required to have the lowest order components equal and opposite to those of the reentrant flux. Sample problems with this P11 boundary condition give good results. A new approximation to neutron transport theory is also reported. This approximation does not rely on expansion or approximation of the angular flux distribution, but rather on approximating the integral transport kernel by a sum of diffusionlike kernels that preserve spatial moments of the kernel. This might permit transport problems to be treated as a set of coupled diffusion problems in any geometry.